What are the different types of AI model?
There are many types of AI models available depending on exactly what we are trying to achieve. At a high level these can be broken down into the data types that the models are going to work with:
- Text
- Documents
- Structured Data
- Images
A full breakdown of the model types can be found here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/ai-builder/model-types
Each of the data types, however, has different AI models which can be used with them. As an example, the documents data type will allow you to utilise key models such as text recognition, document processing, business card reading, or receipt processing. Effectively looking to extract data from a physical document of some kind.
Image based models could be using object recognition to try to automatically identify items within an image, or by using optical character recognition (OCR) to extract textual data from pictures.
There are some great use cases that you could begin to explore, but first, let’...
