AWS Machine Learning Blog

Category: Artificial Intelligence

Generate a counterfactual analysis of corn response to nitrogen with Amazon SageMaker JumpStart solutions

In his book The Book of Why, Judea Pearl advocates for teaching cause and effect principles to machines in order to enhance their intelligence. The accomplishments of deep learning are essentially just a type of curve fitting, whereas causality could be used to uncover interactions between the systems of the world under various constraints without […]

Zero-shot prompting for the Flan-T5 foundation model in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

The size and complexity of large language models (LLMs) have exploded in the last few years. LLMs have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in learning the semantics of natural language and producing human-like responses. Many recent LLMs are fine-tuned with a powerful technique called instruction tuning, which helps the model perform new tasks or generate responses to […]

Reduce call hold time and improve customer experience with self-service virtual agents using Amazon Connect and Amazon Lex

This post was co-written with Tony Momenpour and Drew Clark from KYTC. Government departments and businesses operate contact centers to connect with their communities, enabling citizens and customers to call to make appointments, request services, and sometimes just ask a question. When there are more calls than agents can answer, callers get placed on hold […]

Build end-to-end document processing pipelines with Amazon Textract IDP CDK Constructs

September 2023: This post was reviewed and updated. Intelligent document processing (IDP) with AWS helps automate information extraction from documents of different types and formats, quickly and with high accuracy, without the need for machine learning (ML) skills. Faster information extraction with high accuracy can help you make quality business decisions on time, while reducing […]

Snapper provides machine learning-assisted labeling for pixel-perfect image object detection

Bounding box annotation is a time-consuming and tedious task that requires annotators to create annotations that tightly fit an object’s boundaries. Bounding box annotation tasks, for example, require annotators to ensure that all edges of an annotated object are enclosed in the annotation. In practice, creating annotations that are precise and well-aligned to object edges […]

Recommend top trending items to your users using the new Amazon Personalize recipe

Amazon Personalize is excited to announce the new Trending-Now recipe to help you recommend items gaining popularity at the fastest pace among your users. Amazon Personalize is a fully managed machine learning (ML) service that makes it easy for developers to deliver personalized experiences to their users. It enables you to improve customer engagement by […]

Bundesliga Match Fact Ball Recovery Time: Quantifying teams’ success in pressing opponents on AWS

In football, ball possession is a strong predictor for team success. It’s hard to control the game without having control over the ball. In the past three Bundesliga seasons, as well as in the current season (at the time of this writing), Bayern Munich is ranked first in the table and in ball possession percentage, […]

Bundesliga Match Fact Keeper Efficiency: Comparing keepers’ performances objectively using machine learning on AWS

The Bundesliga is renowned for its exceptional goalkeepers, making it potentially the most prominent among Europe’s top five leagues in this regard. Apart from the widely recognized Manuel Neuer, the Bundesliga has produced remarkable goalkeepers who have excelled in other leagues, including the likes of Marc-André ter Stegen, who is a superstar at Barcelona. In […]

HAYAT HOLDING uses Amazon SageMaker to increase product quality and optimize manufacturing output, saving $300,000 annually

This is a guest post by Neslihan Erdogan, Global Industrial IT Manager at HAYAT HOLDING. With the ongoing digitization of the manufacturing processes and Industry 4.0, there is enormous potential to use machine learning (ML) for quality prediction. Process manufacturing is a production method that uses formulas or recipes to produce goods by combining ingredients […]

Achieve effective business outcomes with no-code machine learning using Amazon SageMaker Canvas

On November 30, 2021, we announced the general availability of Amazon SageMaker Canvas, a visual point-and-click interface that enables business analysts to generate highly accurate machine learning (ML) predictions without having to write a single line of code. With Canvas, you can take ML mainstream throughout your organization so business analysts without data science or […]