You've seen the hype. Now you're curious. Why not have a crack at AI using this online lab...

Microsoft has thrown open the doors to its AI Lab, a suite of beginner projects to help developers learn machine learning. There are five different experiments that cover computer vision, natural language processing, and drones. "Each lab gives you access to the experimentation playground, source code on GitHub, a crisp developer-friendly video, and insights into the underlying business problem and solution," according to Microsoftie Tara Shankar Jana on Tuesday. The first one is is the DrawingBot. It teaches developers about generative adversarial networks (GANs), a popular type of neural network that learns to create similar content to the data it was trained on.