From the course: Azure AI Services Essential Training (2023)

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- [Presenter] Now let's get an overview of a very important capability of Azure Cognitive Services, which is language. Okay, I'll let you read this description. See, here's the thing. We used to write code in binary, then we started writing code that we could punch right into the computer, but it was assembler. Then we started having languages like FORTRANs, C++, and wow, we could use it to describe powerful constructs. What's the commonality here? All these languages and mechanisms, computers expect us to be exact. We couldn't talk to computers in English because computers didn't understand the nuances of English, or for that matter, any natural language. But when humans talk with each other, like we are talking right now, they talk in natural language. Wouldn't it be nice if we could bring the simplicity of talking or expressing intent in a natural language to computer applications? That is exactly what Azure…

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