“The most profound technologies are those that disappear.

They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life

until they are indistinguishable from it.”
Mark Weiser
 What is Artificial Intelligence?

It is technology that can perceive, learn, reason, help

in making decisions and act to help us solve
problems.

Vision Language Speech Search Knowledge

Our Opportunity Is Large
 Microsoft AI breakthroughs

Vision Speech Language

RESNET vision test Switchboard speech Machine translation SQuAD reading

152 layers recognition test Research System comprehension test
 Microsoft AI imperatives

Empower developers to Empower organizations to Empower people to

innovate transform industries transform society
Empower developers to
innovate
 Pre-trained
Cognitive Services
Empower organizations to
transform industries
Stories that inspire Enterprises

Microsoft starts gathering pace in the telco Microsoft Bolsters Artificial Intelligence Publicis and Microsoft launch an ambitious
AI world Services And Powers Progressive's AI platform called Marcel
-Telecoms Chatbot
-Forbes -Business Insider
With behavioral data, we can shift culture from soft to
science through data-driven cultural transformation
 Microsoft Graph
World’s largest source of info on knowledge work (4 trillion emails)
Insights drawn from everyday work in M365 (1B+ meetings/month)
Email + meetings alone account for 20-25 hours per week
Industry-leading privacy and security
Analytics solutions power insight and action

Change behavior with targeted goals

and programs
Diagnose and validate hypotheses

Measure the impact and optimize

 Fosters innovation and employee engagement to
attract top talent and boost productivity

Reduce large meeting sizes with Provide more white space on the Improve work-life balance with Reduce the organizational load
a high degree of functional calendar for planning & less after hours work employees place on each other
redundancy development

Reduced meeting hour Calendaring focus blocks Even with increased Reduced organizational load
attendance by up to 4 up to 4 hours more per demand, maintained or by up to 50%
hours per week week decreased after-hours work

“My productivity increased because I “I’m more deliberate about planning and “I delegate more “I learned I am more productive
declined meetings I didn’t need to attend.” protecting my focus time.” purposefully.” when I multitask less.”
Empower people to
transform society
Opportunity &
Responsibility
 AI for Accessibility

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai-for-accessibility
aka.ms/ai4ha
Disaster response
We will support resiliency,
response, and recovery programs
designed for those affected by
humanitarian emergencies.

Refugees and displaced people

AI for Humanitarian Action will
provide scalable solutions to help
the approximately 68 million
displaced peopled, including
refugees.

Human rights
We will partner with
organizations to accelerate
breakthrough solutions that help
monitor, detect, and prevent
human rights violations.

Needs of children
AI for Humanitarian Action
projects will help ensure the
safety and wellbeing of children
around the world.
What will you do with it?
Retail Store + Web Site <> Internet Company

Data + DNN <> AI Company

1.
Start!
Start NOW with pre-
trained services like Bots
and Cognitive Services. AI
opportunities are everywhere!
4.
Learn
Prioritize learning in your
organization and develop a
platform where everyone can
participate. Hackfests are an
amazing way to bring creativity
forward.
2.
People
Hire or repurpose talented
people into Data & AI Roles.
Establish CDO/CAO. Create an
AI organization to serve all Biz
Units (like mobile 5+ years ago).
5.
Iterate
Define use case, acquire
data, build product, acquire
users, produce more data,
repeat. - Andrew Ng
(Stanford, Baidu, Coursera)
3.
Data
Clean up your data estate now.
Structure, make useful, and
label data. “Those with the
most and best data will
thrive in AI” – Kai-Fu Lee
(Taiwan VC, Microsoft, Google)
6.
Partners
Pick your partners and
develop an integrated
plan leveraging each other’s
strengths.
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