The Microsoft Artificial Intelligence Landscape – And What to use When – Carpe Datum

Artificial Intelligence (AI), at its broadest definition, is simply "a machine that can act using human-style reasoning or perception". Of course, the technologies used to enable that definition are far from simple themselves. Artificial Intelligence isn't new – I worked with "Good Old Fashioned AI" (that's a real thing) back in the late 70's and early 80's. The promise of AI was higher than the technology allowed in those days, and so the AI field went dormant in the public's mind. It had a resurgence a few years later, and now has returned with far greater options than we have ever had before.