Exploring the history of Azure Cognitive Services

There are countless cases of AI being implemented within organizations or broader society at large, and the overall topic of AI is really nothing new. Since the mid-1950s, scientists have been working on various ways to replicate the inner workings of the human brain to teach computers how to "think" on their own and perform tasks with the same efficiency as humans. Through many starts and stops of funding and support, progress has been made with various methodologies. With the introduction of cloud computing in the late 2000s with virtually limitless amounts of processing power, memory, optical networks, and solid-state disk drives, applications of AI have exploded for both corporate and personal use within software, smartphones, and many other uses.

Today, the three major public cloud vendors are Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). They are listed in order of market share in terms...