AI a Brief History
In 1950, this British mathematician authored the paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence". This paper created a test that assesses a machines ability to exhibit behavior equivalent to or indistinguishable from that of a human.
Who is Alan Turing?
Declarative templates that let you deploy identical Azure resources across multiple regions, repeatably.
What are Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates (or Bicep)?
The Azure Vision capability that extracts printed text from images and PDFs.
What is the Read/OCR API in Azure AI Vision?
Prebuilt capability that pulls organizations, people, and locations from text.
What is Named Entity Recognition in Azure AI Language?
Azure service that indexes both structured and unstructured content for retrieval.
What is Azure AI Search?
In 1956, this conference marked the birth of AI as a field. They defined AI as the science and engineering of making intelligent machines.
What is the Dartmouth Conference?
The governance tool that enforces configuration standards, so AI resources stay compliant across subscriptions.
What is Azure Policy?
No‑code service to build an image classification model with labeled examples.
What is Azure Custom Vision (Classification)?
Use this to automatically condense long documents or articles.
What is Summarization in Azure AI Language?
Add these to your indexer to pull text from images/PDFs and enrich with entities.
What are cognitive skills (OCR, entity extraction) in a skillset?
John McArthy, Marvin Minsky, Allen Nuell and Herbert Simon are largely seen as what?
Who are the founding fathers of AI?
Set this up in Microsoft Entra ID so your AI app uses OAuth 2.0/OIDC tokens without storing passwords.
What is an App Registration with federated identity?
Choose this when you need bounding boxes and labels for items in a photo.
What is Object Detection (Custom Vision or Vision Detect)?
Modern replacement for LUIS to understand intents and entities for chatbots
What is Conversational Language Understanding (CLU)?
Enrich documents with language identification and important concepts.
What are Language Detection and Key Phrase Extraction skills?
In 1957, Allen Nuell and Herbert Simon developed a computer program designed to mimic human problem solving strategies. This was the predecessor of the Perceptron, an algorithm for supervised learning of binary classifiers.
What is the General Problem Solver?
The ML platform/service you use to track experiments, model versions, and lineage with MLflow + a registry.
What is Azure Machine Learning with the Model Registry?
This service helps you follow detected objects across multiple video frames.
What is Azure Video Indexer (with tracking), or custom tracking on Vision outputs?
Analyze customer reviews to determine positivity or negativity.
What is Sentiment Analysis in Azure AI Language?
Feature that boosts relevance by understanding meaning beyond keywords.
What is Semantic Search (deep learned ranking + vectors)?
In 1966, SRI International, created this, the first of its kind. It could analyze and react to its surroundings.
What is shaky the first robot?
Wire this eventing service to trigger pipeline runs when new files land in Blob Storage.
What is Azure Event Grid (triggering Azure ML Pipelines)?
Your model struggles on darker images—name the root ML issue.
What is data (dataset) bias / lack of representative samples?
The service to translate text into French and Spanish at scale.
What is Azure Translator?
Keep a large corpus current by only re‑indexing changed items.
What are Indexers with change tracking (high watermark / soft delete)?