During the last 12 years, I’ve been lucky to discover what’s potential with AI by way of innovation, beginning with graduate college at Cornell College, to constructing an organization primarily based on Eureqa algorithms, and main a staff of innovators at DataRobot. Since then, I’ve grow to be more and more motivated to take what I’ve discovered through the years and push these boundaries even additional. Over the previous a number of months I’ve been collaborating with Dom Divakaruni, the Head of Product for Azure OpenAI Service. I couldn’t be extra excited to share what we’ve been engaged on with DataRobot and Microsoft Azure OpenAI service.
In the present day we’re unveiling a brand new cutting-edge integration with Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service. This integration, which leverages the ChatGPT mannequin in Azure OpenAI, offers a conversational AI expertise that may mean you can work together with and interpret mannequin outcomes and predictions immediately. This vital milestone is step one in drastically modernizing not solely the event, however most significantly, the interpretation, understanding, and adoption of AI use instances.
The mixing of DataRobot and Azure OpenAI Service breaks down a barrier that has lengthy existed between information groups and enterprise stakeholders. This integration takes the facility of probably the most superior giant language mannequin applied sciences that exists immediately in Azure OpenAI Service, and thru DataRobot, drives value-centric outcomes with machine studying.
Historically, growing applicable information science code and deciphering the outcomes to resolve a use-case is manually performed by information scientists. It’s a time-intensive course of that may sluggish the adoption of AI throughout a corporation. Nevertheless, we’re now taking the data managed by DataRobot (such because the information, options, fashions, predictions) and leveraging the capabilities of the Azure OpenAI Service to make it extra accessible and comprehensible. The mixing lets you generate clever information science code that displays your use case. For instance, producing code to organize information in addition to prepare and deploy a mannequin. And, it lets you translate modeling outcomes into key enterprise takeaways. An instance of that is proposing why a characteristic has a excessive impression on predictions. Information scientists nonetheless have to assessment and consider these outcomes. Nevertheless, information science groups can spend much less time producing ML prediction interpretations and enterprise customers can derive better understanding from their ML purposes. In the end, customers profit from a clear, and clear rationalization of what ML predictions means to them.
Whereas I’m extraordinarily enthusiastic about what this can imply for growing the purposes and impacts of AI, it’s only the start. Microsoft and DataRobot will work intently to develop on the efficiency and reliability of those options collectively, giving prospects even better confidence to rely on the insights.
This new innovation is a testomony to DataRobot’s relentless concentrate on growing pioneering options to jumpstart a buyer’s AI initiatives for game-changing outcomes. That is one other instance of how DataRobot AI Platform makes it straightforward to seamlessly combine with new applied sciences, like Azure OpenAI Service, so you possibly can create modern enterprise options utilizing ML.
Accelerating Worth-Pushed AI with DataRobot and Azure OpenAI
So how is that this taking place? On this new method, we’re creating a completely new information science growth and collaboration expertise. DataRobot and Microsoft infused new capabilities from giant language fashions to anticipate the code that AI builders want to jot down to resolve a selected use-case, and to translate the ensuing statistical outcomes into the enterprise language mandatory to speak and collaborate with key enterprise stakeholders.
For instance, an information scientist can generate information prep code that’s applicable for the use-case, comparable to merging the related information and deriving targets, mechanically, by describing the issue at hand in pure language. This protects us the time it will in any other case take to memorize metadata and APIs.

Subsequent, when a enterprise consumer begins to ask questions and analyze the insights, the DataRobot AI Platform dynamically surfaces the use case data, information, and fashions together with evaluation generated utilizing an Azure OpenAI mannequin as a way to generate textual content descriptions of probably the most key observations, and the interpretations of what they imply. Not solely are fashions being defined in enterprise language, the conversational capabilities of Azure OpenAI Service permits enterprise stakeholders to ask follow-up questions and to drill in to what’s most impactful findings.

It is a revolutionary dialog expertise that lets on a regular basis individuals work together with a ML mannequin and its insights. New for information scientists, it helps translate the maths of the mannequin into impression on the enterprise, and equally helps enterprise stakeholders get the solutions they should impact change.
Giving Information Scientists New Energy Instruments to go Quicker
As any information scientist is aware of, growing fashions and explaining outcomes is a time-consuming course of. Coding includes memorizing APIs, debugging, and fixing errors. Explaining outcomes means translating what the uncooked information options characterize and contextualizing the perception tendencies. Whereas an information scientist might know the information by coronary heart, the AI-generated explanations assist others to additionally perceive what the totally different findings imply.
The distinctive consumer expertise, combining DataRobot and Azure OpenAI Service, modernizes and accelerates most of the repetitive duties required to develop and implement fashions, comparable to growing in a pocket book and summarizing key outcomes for stakeholders. Information scientists can rapidly innovate to sort out new ML issues and see their work impression organizations. The mixing additionally helps information scientists create new methods to obviously articulate and clarify ML fashions. DataRobot and Azure OpenAI Service collectively assist generate extra actionable insights.
The Potential of DataRobot and Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service
We’re solely getting began. It’s been a pure match for Microsoft and DataRobot to work collectively. We’ll be working collectively to embed advanced generative AI methods from Azure into DataRobot modeling methods subsequent – unlocking fully new use instances for the enterprise.

A Historical past Rooted in Innovation
DataRobot has been on the forefront of innovation within the areas of AutoML, MLOps, Automated Time Collection, and have engineering. I’m personally excited by what the mixing with Azure OpenAI Service will imply for information science and our prospects subsequent.
We’ve been innovating for the final decade, and we’re not performed but. Keep tuned and hold a watch out for what’s coming. The DataRobot staff is working arduous to push the boundaries by way of all the new improvements popping out in AI to assist organizations apply them to their organizations for value-driven AI.
See the DataRobot and Azure OpenAI capabilities in motion and study extra in regards to the DataRobot and Microsoft partnership in the digital occasion, From Imaginative and prescient to Worth: Creating Affect with AI, reside or on-demand.
Concerning the creator

Chief Expertise Officer, DataRobot
Michael Schmidt serves as Chief Expertise Officer of DataRobot, the place he’s liable for pioneering the subsequent frontier of the corporate’s cutting-edge know-how. Schmidt joined DataRobot in 2017 following the corporate’s acquisition of Nutonian, a machine studying firm he based and led, and has been instrumental to profitable product launches, together with Automated Time Collection. Schmidt earned his PhD from Cornell College, the place his analysis centered on automated machine studying, synthetic intelligence, and utilized math. He lives in Washington, DC.