10. The Future of AI

In previous chapters, we covered some of the most powerful ways to use and consume Cognitive APIs. In Chapter 1, you started your journey into the world of artificial intelligence. The later chapters helped you understand how your application can deeply understand and interpret content on the Web or a user’s machine, intelligently react to direct user interaction through speech or text, or make smart recommendations on products or services that are tailored to each individual user. You also got familiar with building applications that make intelligent use of language and user interaction to better compete in today’s marketplace. Developers normally think of AI as tough task involving writing algorithms. One of the goals of this book is to remove the anxiety among you and to show you how easy it is to create amazing applications with just a few lines of code. By now you should be convinced that bringing these Cognitive APIs into your application is easy. Microsoft certainly did a great job in abstracting all the nuances of the deep neural network and complex algorithms by exposing easy-to-use REST APIs. So what's next? Where should you go from here?