Artificial Intelligence

Today AWS is pleased to announce that it is working with Facebook, Microsoft, and the Partnership on AI on the first Deepfakes Detection Challenge.  The competition, to which we are contributing up to $1 million in AWS credits to researchers and academics over the next two years, is designed to produce technology that can be […]

The AWS DeepRacer League is the world’s first autonomous racing league, open to anyone. Announced at re:Invent 2018, it puts machine learning in the hands of every developer in a fun and exciting way. Throughout 2019, developers of all skill levels have competed in the League at 21 Amazon events globally, including Amazon re:MARS and select AWS Summits, and put their skills to the test in the League’s virtual circuit via the AWS DeepRacer console. The League concludes at re:Invent 2019. Log in today and start racing—time is running out to win an expenses paid trip to re:Invent!

This post looks at the role machine learning plays in providing fans with deeper insights into the game. We also provide code snippets that show the training and deployment process behind these insights on Amazon SageMaker.

In daily conversations, you often jump back and forth between multiple topics. For example, when discussing a home improvement project related to new windows and curtains, you might have questions like, “How about closing out on curtain styles and then revisiting colors?” When AWS launched Amazon Lex Session API, you learned how to address such […]

Building a highly accurate training dataset for your machine learning (ML) algorithm is an iterative process. It is common to review and continuously adjust your labels until you are satisfied that the labels accurately represent the ground truth, or what is directly observable in the real world. ML practitioners often built custom systems to review […]

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that Amazon Textract, a machine learning service that quickly and easily extracts text and data from forms and tables in scanned documents, is now eligible for healthcare and life science workloads that require HIPAA compliance. This launch builds upon the existing portfolio of AWS artificial intelligence services that are […]

July 2024: The solution in this blog post is now obsolete with the release of Amazon Lex V2. Ever been stumped by a question? Imagine you’re in a business review going over weekly numbers and someone asks, “What about expenses?” Your response might be, “I don’t know. I wasn’t prepared to have that discussion right now.” […]

Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that makes it easy to extract text and data from virtually any document. Textract goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to also identify the contents of fields in forms and information stored in tables. This allows you to use Amazon Textract to instantly “read” virtually any type […]

October 2024: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for developers to add speech-to-text capability to applications. In November 2018, we added streaming transcriptions over HTTP/2 to Amazon Transcribe. This enabled users to pass a live audio stream to the service […]

Machine learning (ML) is one of the fastest growing areas in technology and a highly sought after skillset in today’s job market. Today, I am excited to announce a new education course, built in collaboration with Coursera, to help you build your ML skills: Getting started with AWS Machine Learning. You can access the course […]