When Microsoft’s data chief thinks about the future, he sees a world where developers create applications that leverage machine learning and predictive analytics without the help of a data scientist.
Joseph Sirosh, the corporate vice president in charge of Microsoft’s Data group, likens the state of machine-learning tools to an age decades ago when people bought tailored shirts. In a similar way that mass manufacturing now lets people grab a shirt off the rack, he says a similar transition is coming to application development.
In an on-stage interview at the Structure conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, Sirosh touted a vision of a marketplace for finished tools that developers can plug into apps to provide intelligent capabilities like speech recognition, facial recognition, forecasting and more.
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Why Microsoft’s data chief thinks machine-learning tools are like tailored shirts
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