This document discusses artificial intelligence and Amazon AI services. It provides an overview of Amazon's AI capabilities including Amazon Rekognition for image and video analysis, Amazon Polly for text-to-speech, and Amazon Lex for conversational interfaces. It outlines how Amazon's AI services help address challenges of scale for training models using large datasets and computing resources. The document also discusses how customers can get started with Amazon's AI services and platforms either using pre-built models or developing custom models on AWS infrastructure.

1. © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Alastair Cousins. Senior Solutions Architect, ANZ Public Sector
Innovation & Artificial Intelligence

2. Today’s Agenda
What is artificial intelligence?1
What is Amazon AI?2
How do you get started?3

3. A system or service which can perform tasks
that usually require human intelligence
Artificial Intelligence

4. The Challenge For Artificial Intelligence: SCALE
Data

5. Data Training
The Challenge For Artificial Intelligence: SCALE

6. Data Training Prediction
The Challenge For Artificial Intelligence: SCALE

7. New data created on AWS
Data
Training Prediction
PBs of existing data
The Challenge For Artificial Intelligence: SCALE
Low cost

8. Tons of GPUs
Elastic capacity
Training
Prediction
Pre-built images
The Challenge For Artificial Intelligence: SCALE
New data created on AWS
Data
PBs of existing data
Low cost

9. Tons of GPUs and CPUs
Serverless
At the Edge, On IoT Devices
Prediction
The Challenge For Artificial Intelligence: SCALE
Tons of GPUs
Elastic capacity
Training
Pre-built images
Low cost
New data created on AWS
Data
PBs of existing data

10. AWS is the Center of Gravity for
Artificial Intelligence

11. The Promise Of Artificial Intelligence: INNOVATION
New Features
for Existing Products

12. New Experiences
and Product Categories
The Promise Of Artificial Intelligence: INNOVATION
New Features
for Existing Products

13. Breakthrough
Advances
New Experiences
and Product Categories
The Promise Of Artificial Intelligence: INNOVATION
New Features
for Existing Products

14. Running AI In Production on AWS Today

15. Early Detection of
Diabetic Complications

17. Autonomous Driving Systems

18. Computational
Knowledge Engine

19. Thousands of Amazon Engineers Focused on AI
Fulfilment &
Logistics

21. Thousands of Amazon Engineers Focused on AI
Fulfilment &
Logistics
Search &
Discovery

22. Thousands of Amazon Engineers Focused on AI
Fulfilment &
Logistics
Search &
Discovery
Existing
Products

24. Fulfilment &
Logistics
Search &
Discovery
Existing
Products
New
Products
Thousands of Amazon Engineers Focused on AI

27. Amazon AI
“Inside AWS, we’re excited to lower the costs and barriers to
machine learning and AI so organizations of all sizes can
take advantage of these advanced techniques”

28. AI Services
Amazon
Rekognition
Amazon AI: Democratized Artificial Intelligence

29. Rekognition: Object & Scene Detection

30. Rekognition: Facial Detection

31. Rekognition: Facial Comparison

32. Rekognition: Facial Search

33. AI Services
Amazon
Rekognition
Amazon
Polly
Amazon AI: Democratized Artificial Intelligence

34. 2. Intelligible and Easy to Understand
3. Add Semantic Meaning to Text
Polly: A Focus On Voice Quality & Pronunciation
1. Automatic, Accurate Text Processing
4. Customized Pronunciation
Articles and Blogs
Training Material
Chatbots (Lex)
Public Announcements

35. AI Services
Amazon
Rekognition
Amazon
Polly
Amazon
Lex
Amazon AI: Democratized Artificial Intelligence

36. Amazon Lex: Conversational Chatbots
I’d like to book a hotel.
Sure! What city would you like to book it in?

37. Amazon Lex: Conversational Chatbots
I’d like to book a hotel.
Sure! What city would you like to book it in?
Sydney
Destination:
Sydney

38. Amazon Lex: Conversational Chatbots
I’d like to book a hotel.
Sure! What city would you like to book it in?
Sydney
When would you like to check in?
Next Friday
Destination:
Sydney
Check In:
30/6/2017

39. Amazon Lex: Conversational Chatbots
Lex Bots
Web
Devices
Apps
Facebook Messenger,
Slack, Twilio
Amazon
Connect
Mobile
Mobile Hub
integration

40. Amazon Lex: Conversational Chatbots
Lex Bots
Salesforce
Microsoft Dynamics
Marketo
Zendesk
Web
Devices
Apps
Facebook Messenger,
Slack, Twilio
Amazon
Connect
Mobile
Mobile Hub
integration
Quickbooks

41. AI Services
Amazon
Rekognition
Amazon
Polly
Amazon
Lex
More to come
in 2017
Amazon AI: Democratized Artificial Intelligence

42. AI Services
AI Platform
Amazon
Rekognition
Amazon
Polly
Amazon
Lex
More to come
in 2017
More to come
in 2017
Amazon AI: Democratized Artificial Intelligence
Amazon
Machine Learning
EMR & Spark AWS Batch

43. AI Services
AI Platform
AI Engines
Amazon
Rekognition
Amazon
Polly
Amazon
Lex
More to come
in 2017
More to come
in 2017
Apache
MXNet
TensorFlow Caffe Theano KerasTorch CNTK
Amazon AI: Democratized Artificial Intelligence
Amazon
Machine Learning
EMR & Spark AWS Batch

44. “How can we get started?”

45. AI Services Are A No-Brainer (Pun Intended)
High
quality
Deep
functionality
Built for
production
Easy to use
& thoughtfully
integrated
Low
cost

46. Custom Models: A Data-Driven Pursuit
Collect
& Organize

47. Collect
& Organize
Augment
& Enrich
Custom Models: A Data-Driven Pursuit

48. Custom Models: A Data-Driven Pursuit
Collect
& Organize
Augment
& Enrich
Experiment
& Learn

49. Building Intuition For Deep Learning
“Fizz Buzz!”

50. Building Intuition For Deep Learning

51. AWS Deep Learning AMI: One-Click Deep Learning
Up To 40,000
CUDA Cores
Apache
MXNet
Python 3 Notebooks
& Examples
(and others)

52. Model
Training
Amazon AI: Building Intelligent Systems, End To End

53. Model
Training
Inference
in the Cloud
Amazon AI: Building Intelligent Systems, End To End

54. Model
Training
Inference
in the Cloud
Inference
at the Edge
Amazon AI: Building Intelligent Systems, End To End

55. More Information
https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-ai

56. Thank you