Microsoft launches Project Bonsai, its new machine teaching service for building autonomous systems
Project Bonsaiย speeds the creation of AI-powered automation to help improve product quality and efficiency while reducing downtime.
At its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced that Project Bonsai, its new machine teaching service, is now in public preview.
If that name sounds familiar, itโs probably because you remember that Microsoft acquired Bonsai, a company that focuses on machine teaching, back in 2018. Bonsai combined simulation tools with different machine learning techniques to build a general-purpose deep reinforcement learning platform, with a focus on industrial control systems.
Itโs maybe no surprise then that Project Bonsai, too, has a similar focus on helping businesses teach and manage their autonomous machines. โWith Project Bonsai, subject-matter experts can add state-of-the-art intelligence to their most dynamic physical systems and processes without needing a background in AI,โ the company notes in its press materials.
โThe public preview of Project Bonsai builds on top of the Bonsai acquisition and the autonomous systems private preview announcements made at Build and Ignite of last year,โ a Microsoft spokesperson told me.
Interestingly, Microsoft notes that project Bonsai is only the first block of a larger vision to help its customers build these autonomous systems. The company also stresses the advantages of machine teaching over other machine learning approaches, especially the fact that itโs less of a black box approach than other methods, which makes it easier for developers and engineers to debug systems that donโt work as expected.
In addition to Bonsai, Microsoft also today announced Project Moab, an open-source balancing robot that is meant to help engineers and developers learn the basics of how to build a real-world control system. The idea here is to teach the robot to keep a ball balanced on top of a platform that is held by three arms.
Potential users will be able to either 3D-print the robot themselves or buy one when it goes on sale later this year. There is also a simulation, developed by MathWorks, that developers can try out immediately.
โYou can very quickly take it into areas where doing it in traditional ways would not be easy, such as balancing an egg instead,โ said Mark Hammond, Microsoft general manager for Autonomous Systems. โThe point of the Project Moab system is to provide that playground where engineers tackling various problems can learn how to use the tooling and simulation models. Once they understand the concepts, they can apply it to their novel use case.โ
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