Source: ATYUN AI platform
Vulcan Steel daily delivery of about 3,000 pieces of steel to the New Zealand and Australian companies - which means that every day, employees need to use their training to determine how to safely remove the massive steel from the truck and into a very diverse customer base .
"This is a difficult to transport the product, it is difficult to design all the risks," as the company's chief information officer James Jonathan Wells said. "One of the key skills required or So for us, this means keeping people safe for us is to focus on education."
Over the years, Vulcan Steel did what most companies do - they were prior to their security staff to the field of education, then if someone reports an accident or near miss, they will conduct additional training as needed.
Now, they are using artificial intelligence trying to be more proactive in preventing accidents and dangerous situations before the accident. The company recently started using Microsoft Cognitive Service of Custom Vision tool to evaluate camera lens on the company truck to find risky behavior or may cause an accident.
Computer vision tools can do things that the human eye can not reasonably do - screening thousands of shots every day to look for potential risks - let's staff review flagged from a small part of the lens can be a problem.
In turn, this makes the Vulcan Steel is able to focus its efforts on education it considers the most dangerous or most worrisome scenario. Wells said the accident has been very rare, so our goal is to build the company's safety culture.
"We hope that we can measure the amount of education discussed thus carried out," Wells said. "From our point of view, if we increase the number of additional security to discuss our organization, it does not actually have any negative impact."
Vulcan Steel without a lot of developers, of course, no AI team of experts. Wells said that the work on the development of AI systems is basically an enthusiastic .NET developers how he saw the potential of AI to help business.
Vulcan Steel employees during loading and delivery of steel orders need to manage a number of variables.
"It left me with a deep impression, how little we arrived at the destination of the details of the experience was," Wells said.
In the Microsoft Build developer conference in Seattle this week, the company launched a series of new and updated tools, these tools help developers to complete all the work of Vulcan Steel part of developers - will incorporate the new AI or existing processes, whether or not they have a background in the rapidly emerging field.
Microsoft vice president Joseph Xiluo Shi (Joseph Sirosh) said that Microsoft is expanding the list of artificial intelligence tools for developers, because the company asked to add voice or image recognition and other content to their applications, as from the competition One way to stand out, more efficient operations, better customer service.
"We have seen tremendous hockey stick is the use of AI in all major application, the application now begin to distinguish between these functions."
In Build, the company's announcement it will include many new features Microsoft certification services, these functions allow with little or no knowledge of AI developers to add voice, language, content, and search capability in their applications. The announcement includes a unified voice services, including custom speech recognition, and computer vision to identify objects provide advances, new features to extract information and perform a visual search from an image from the improved text-to-speech function to.
I hope we will stimulate the imagination, and I hope we show how imaginative methods to them through our API.
Microsoft will also showcase its update dialog AI tools, including Bot Builder SDK v4 public preview, and add roles for robots, learning session mode and extracts from documents and answers to questions and other functions.
In addition, Microsoft announced support for the deployment of Microsoft cognitive services - such as a vehicle or on a network or not connected to the cloud or camera equipment. Microsoft also said it is on Azure machine-learning service is updated, the latter for the development of artificial intelligence, training and deployment of providing life-cycle support, and announced the launch of ML.NET, Microsoft has been using it internally to more easily integrate into the .NET AI existing workflow of developers.
Sirosh said he hoped Build conference to provide practical guidance to add AI AI tools and learning skills for developers - and let them do what you can use these features to get excited about them.
"I hope we inspire imagination, I hope we will show you how to make their imagination come true through our API," Sirosh said. "Then I want them to be inspired, the use of more advanced machine learning to build your own custom API in the cloud."
Prevent Blindness
intelligent retinal imaging system chief strategy and information officer Jonathan Stevenson likes to say that his company's goal is simple: to end preventable blindness.
To do this, the company simplifies the process of detection of diabetic retinopathy in diabetic patients, the disease leads to blindness unless detected early, it is usually asymptomatic until severe visual impairment occurs. The program provides comprehensive diagnostic platform for primary care physicians, diabetes so that they can be tested during a routine eye examination, including retinal image capture medical equipment, software and services. Experts will then be reviewed to send images through secure cloud-based network.
Stevenson said that screening programs can help primary care physicians to better identify which patients are at risk of vision loss, even in patients without any symptoms. These patients can then be referred to an ophthalmologist or eye specialist for treatment.
Recently, IRIS began using Microsoft's AI tools to increase the likelihood of early eye disease found.
Stevenson said they are using the same algorithm to scan the patient images ophthalmologist review, backed by anything of doctors may have missed. The company also uses machine learning tools to analyze anonymous patient data to better predict which factors may make people with retinopathy at risk. This can help them better identify and mark should be more patient with periodic testing or inspection of eye care providers.
The company is also developing an artificial intelligence tool to verify that the right and left eye images are marked correctly - seemingly a small thing, but it can save a lot of trouble.
Stevenson said that any step in the process of IRIS goal is not to replace the doctor, but by capturing the occasional human error and provide useful additional background to increase the doctors are doing.
"IRIS artificial intelligence not only can help the doctor," he said. "This is in order to allow providers to make faster, more informed decisions."
Like Vulcan Steel team, expertise IRIS started this project very little - in fact, says Stevenson, chief programmer previously only work in Linux.
Stevenson said: "Everything we do in terms of artificial intelligence is done by one person, and I support him." "If we do not have tools provided by Microsoft, we have no way to do it."
Irene Gomez Telefonica Aura oversees the personal digital assistant, development and deployment.
Aura met
And Vulcan Steel IRIS or different, Telefónica for years has been using AI, but mainly for internal data analysis and other commercial purposes.
"By using data and machine learning, we can reduce costs and make better internal decision-making," responsible for the company Aura personal digital assistants developed and deployed IreneGómez he said. "It's all very well, but how about the customer? We want to show customers that they can control their data and provide them with tools, in order to derive the best customer experience."
Therefore, Gómez and a team together, using Microsoft Cognitive Services and Azure Bot Service to build a digital assistant that can help customers to complete a variety of transactions from a TV recording arrange to pay the bills and so on.
Aura is only available in a few months, Gómez said the team has seen customers have high expectations for digital assistant. They want the assistant to quickly acquire new knowledge about the latest TV programs. Aura hope they can understand them, no matter what words they use, rather than be required to use specific phrases to get what they want. They want Aura relatively Personalization - for example, due to the Telefónica business in several Spanish-speaking countries, their programming assistant to use and understand each country accents, grammar and language change. AI tool is helping to do all these things.
Gómez said the uniqueness of the project is to develop cutting-edge technology they are using cutting-edge digital assistants. This is exciting, it is influential, it also requires the team resilient, and can deal with the idea that things are not always as planned.
"While technology continues to develop your product development, so if you want to work like Aura project, you must have an open mind," Gómez said.
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