Slides from my talk at the AWS Summit in Stockholm - together with Mika Rautianen from Valossa.

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Adrian Hornsby | Technical Evangelist | AWS
Mika Rautiainen | CEO/CTO | Valossa Labs Oy
May 2017
AI on the AWS Platform

2. Artificial Intelligence
At Amazon

3. Artificial Intelligence
At Amazon

5. The (60 years) rise of Artificial Intelligence

6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_neural_network

7. The Curse of Dimensionality

8. The Advent Of Deep
Learning
Algorithms

9. Data
Algorithms
The Advent Of Deep
Learning

10. Data
GPUs
& Acceleration
Algorithms
The Advent Of Deep
Learning

11. Data
GPUs
& Acceleration
Cloud
Computing
Algorithms
The Advent Of Deep
Learning

12. Data
GPUs
& Acceleration
Cloud
Computing
Algorithms
AWS
The Advent Of Deep
Learning

13. Artificial Intelligence on AWS
Polly
Text-to-Speech
Rekognition Lex
Image Analysis ASR & NLU
Deep Learning AMI
Popular Frameworks

14. Artificial Intelligence on AWS
Deep Learning AMI
Popular Frameworks

15. One-Click
Deep Learning
AWS Deep Learning AMIs
Amazon Linux & Ubuntu
Up to~40k CUDA cores
Apache MXNet
TensorFlow
Theano
Keras
Caffe
CNTK
Torch
Pre-configured CUDA drivers
Anaconda, Python3
Out-of-the-box Tutorials
+ CloudFormation template
+ Container Image
Available in the AWS Marketplace

16. <demo>
Deep Learning AMI
</demo>

17. Artificial Intelligence on AWS
Polly
Text-to-Speech

18. Text In, Life-like Speech Out
Amazon Polly
“Today in Seattle, WA
it’s 11°F”
“Today in Seattle Washington it’s
11 degrees Fahrenheit”

19. “Today in Seattle, WA, it’s 11°F”
‘"We live for the music" live from the Madison Square Garden.’
1. Automatic, Accurate Text Processing
A Focus On Voice Quality & Pronunciation

20. 2. Intelligible and Easy to Understand
1. Automatic, Accurate Text Processing
A Focus On Voice Quality & Pronunciation

21. 2. Intelligible and Easy to Understand
3. Add Semantic Meaning to Text
“Richard’s number is 2122341237“
“Richard’s number is 2122341237“
Telephone Number
A Focus On Voice Quality & Pronunciation
1. Automatic, Accurate Text Processing

22. 2. Intelligible and Easy to Understand
3. Add Semantic Meaning to Text
4. Customized Pronunciation
“My daughter’s name is Kaja.”
“My daughter’s name is Kaja.”
A Focus On Voice Quality & Pronunciation
1. Automatic, Accurate Text Processing

23. TEXT
Market grew by > 20%.
WORDSPHONEMES
{
{
{
{
{
ˈtwɛn.ti
pɚ.ˈsɛnt
ˈmɑɹ.kət ˈgɹu baɪ ˈmoʊɹ
ˈðæn
PROSODY CONTOURUNIT SELECTION AND ADAPTATION
TEXT PROCESSING
PROSODY MODIFICATIONSTREAMING
Market grew by more
than
twenty
percent
Speech units
inventory

24. <demo>
Amazon Polly
</demo>

25. Duolingo voices its language learning service Using Polly
Duolingo is a free language learning service where
users help translate the web and rate translations.
With Amazon Polly our users
benefit from the most lifelike
Text-to-Speech voices
available on the market.
Severin Hacker
CTO, Duolingo
”
“
• Spoken language crucial for
language learning
• Accurate pronunciation matters
• Faster iteration thanks to TTS
• As good as natural human speech

26. Artificial Intelligence on AWS
Rekognition
Image Analysis

27. Amazon Rekognition
Deep learning-based image recognition service
Search, verify, and organize millions of images
Object and Scene
Detection
Facial
Analysis
Face
Comparison
Facial
Recognition

28. Object & Scene Detection

29. Object & Scene Detection

30. Facial Analysis

31. Facial Analysis

32. Facial Search

33. Facial Search

34. <demo>
Amazon Rekognition
</demo>

35. Bynder allows you to easily create, find and use
content for branding automation and marketing
solutions.
With our new AI capabilities,
Bynder’s software… now allows
users to save hours of admin
labor when uploading and
organizing their files, adding
exponentially more value.
Chris Hall
CEO, Bynder
”
“
With Rekognition, Bynder revolutionizes marketing admin tasks with AI capabilities

36. <demo>
Amazon Rekognition & Polly
</demo>

37. Artificial Intelligence on AWS
Lex
ASR & NLU

38. Amazon ALEXA
(It’s what’s inside Alexa)
Natural Language Understanding (NLU) &
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Powered By Deep Learning

39. Speech Recognition & Natural
Language Understanding
Amazon Lex
Automatic Speech Recognition
Natural Language Understanding
“What’s the weather
forecast?”
Weather
Forecast

40. Speech Recognition & Natural
Language Understanding
Amazon Lex
Automatic Speech Recognition
Natural Language Understanding
“What’s the weather
forecast?”
“It will be sunny
and 25°C”
Weather
Forecast

41. Artificial Intelligence on AWS
AI ServicesDeep Learning AMI

42. Artificial Intelligence on AWS
EC2AI ServicesDeep Learning AMI

43. P2M4 D2 X1 G2T2 R4 I3 C5
General Purpose
GPUGeneral Purpose
Dense storage Large memory
Graphics
intensive
Memory intensive High I/O
Compute intensiveBurstable
Lightsail
Simple VPS
F1
FPGAs
Instance Families

44. Up to
40 thousand parallel processing cores
70 teraflops (single precision)
over 23 teraflops (double precision)
Instance Size GPUs GPU Peer
to Peer
vCPUs Memory
(GiB)
Network
Bandwidth*
p2.xlarge 1 - 4 61 1.25Gbps
p2.8xlarge 8 Y 32 488 10Gbps
p2.16xlarge 16 Y 64 732 20Gbps
*In a placement group
Amazon EC2 P2 Instances

45. Artificial Intelligence on AWS
EC2
AI ServicesDeep Learning AMI

46. VIDEO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
www.val.ai | www.valossa.com | info@valossa.com | @ValossaInc
2e19

47. About Valossa
Valossa is a high technology university spin-
off from Finland.
We are a group of PhDs, MScs, and BDs
with a long research background on video
understanding technology: machine learning,
computer vision, information retrieval,
audiovisual signal processing and NLP.
Valossa AI is an Artificial Intelligence cloud
platform for comprehensive multimodal
video intelligence.
Valossa AI understands video like a human
does, analyzing everything that is said and
seen in a video using a powerful analysis
engine running in the cloud.
VALOSSA.COM

48. IDENTITY
Shelby Wyatt
DIALOGUE VISUALVISUAL
EXPRESSION
Happiness
TOPIC
Holiday
VISUAL
PLACE
Corridor
AUDIO
SOUND
Music
Valossa AI - Multimodal scene-level understanding

49. Intelligent Visualisations for AI Results

51. Benefits for Media Industry
AD TARGETING – DEEPER CONTEXT
€79,90
Buy Now >
VIDEO ASSET MANAGEMENT – BETTER INSIGHT
NEW VIDEO EXPERIENCES – RICHER CONTENT
Jack Black Movies
Jack Black
‘Bernie Tiede’
American actor &
musician
Age: 47

52. Valossa AI on AWS - Elasticity for Artificial Intelligence

53. Challenge
Dynamically scalable GPU server resources
based on variable and increasing demand.
Solution
EC2 GPU cluster scales out / in based on usage.
GPU-based high volume processing brings superhuman capability to
video content annotation and understanding
Valossa AI on AWS - GPU Power

54. Challenge
Have computing resources geographically
near the customer to minimize network delays.
Solution
Using globally geolocated availability zones in EC2 we can bring our
artificial intelligence close to customer’s data.
Valossa AI on AWS - Global Availability

55. The Benefits of Working with AWS
GPU Power - Global Scalability - Customer Data - Reliability
Video AI that sees and hears everything - www.valossa.com

56. Thank You!