Artificial Intelligence isn’t just for enterprise corporations or for theory in a classroom. There are many AI services out there that anyone can take advantage of to increase productivity, reduce user frustration, and get the most ROI out of your technology investments. What’s more, many of these services are free or cost very little to use.
In this site I’ll be posting how-to videos and resources for getting started using many services and features that utilize AI, often without writing a line of code. For the most part I will be relying on Azure Cognitive Services and Microsoft 365 services that many organizations already own.
If you don’t currently have Azure, you can sign up for free and get $200 in credits by going to: Create your Azure free account today | Microsoft Azure
If you don’t currently have Microsoft 365 you can sign up for a free developer tenant by going to: Set up a Microsoft 365 developer subscription | Microsoft Docs
Now… let’s dig in and have some fun and don’t forget to check out my other blog site where I talk about all things SharePoint and Microsoft 365: http://www.markrackley.net
- Using Microsoft Translator to Create a Multilingual Chatbot in 5 Minutes
Microsoft Translator is probably one of the most powerful and easiest to use cognitive service offered by Microsoft. Using Microsoft Translator you can translate text to and from almost any language you can imagine. You can integrate with Microsoft Translator easily using the REST interface or using a connector for Power Apps, Power Automate, and… Read more: Using Microsoft Translator to Create a Multilingual Chatbot in 5 Minutes - Create a QnA Bot with a Personality Using Power Virtual Agents in Teams
Power Virtual Agents are a fantastic tool for creating both simple and complex bots that perform various tasks. Using “Topics” and the intuitive authoring canvas it’s easy for almost anyone to create a bot. Throw in the use of Power Virtual Agents for Microsoft Teams and you can create and use these bots at no… Read more: Create a QnA Bot with a Personality Using Power Virtual Agents in Teams - An Introduction to Power Virtual Agents for Microsoft Teams
Over the past few years, it has become increasingly easier to create powerful chatbots with little to no code. Now almost anyone can quickly create a deploy a chatbot with ease. Power Virtual Agents is a premium add-on to the Power Platform that allows you to create and deploy such bots. However, as part of… Read more: An Introduction to Power Virtual Agents for Microsoft Teams - Getting Started with Bots and AI
Probably the easiest way to get started with AI and bots is to go through the process of creating and deploying a bot using the Azure service QnA Maker. QnA Maker allows non-technical folks the ability create a Question and Answer bot that uses an existing knowledge base that you probably already have lying around… Read more: Getting Started with Bots and AI