I recently recorded an introduction to the Microsoft Artificial Intelligence suite of tools and services you can use in your organization, from what is already built into Microsoft applications you own, through leveraging Cognitive Services, customizing AI, all the way through writing your own AI with Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Neural Networks. I also explained how to run these services, or host the ones you write on Microsoft Azure using web apps, Docker, and other technologies. And I have a full article on these technologies that you can read here. We have a whole series of these webinars - you can find the list here.

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.