Category: Artificial Intelligence

To get a better understanding of the service and how it came to be, we sat down with one of the product managers of SageMaker, Kumar Venkateswar. He told us about what the team set out to build, the problems they were looking to fix, and what startups are currently using the service.

Designed with startup founders and technical staff in mind, the AWS Startup Day series was created to help accelerate startup innovation and growth and we’re excited to be bringing the event to London for the first time.

If you use a voice-based personal assistant like Alexa, chances are advances in AI have already made it into their backend for companies to yield savings from processing efficiency. But sooner or later, deep learning is going to change your life.

Artificial intelligence, one of the most promising technological developments of the past decade, has had a slow start finding wide use cases. Right now, it’s primarily being used by marketers and the military. But is that all it can do?

In Season 4 of the hit HBO show, “Silicon Valley,” the character Jian Yang attempts to build an app that uses image recognition artificial intelligence (AI) to identify and label the foods in captured pictures. But there is a fairly major glitch: his app can only differentiate between hot dogs and… not hot dogs. Once I stopped laughing, the episode prompted a question that centers on my role as a Solutions Architect at AWS: How easily could I build my own hotdog identifying app? Turns out, pretty easily.

In their 2016 Forecast: Internet of Things (IoT) report, Gartner projected that 8.4 billion connected IoT devices will be in use by the end of 2017. That’s up 31% from 2016 with the greatest concentration of use in China, North America, and Western Europe. AWS Developer Workshop at Web Summit 2017. That’s why it’s no […]

RedLock explains how their new AI-driven approach correlates disparate data sets across large, distributed AWS environments and how this provides a unified view of security and compliance risks.

It’s been epic. More than 1,000 visitors, 12,000 Twitch views and counting, 36 breakout sessions, 19 live streams, 5 hands-on workshops, 3 networking evenings, 2 breakfast briefings, a Fintech innovation showcase, and an AWS Community Day later, we’ve now officially closed the London Pop-up Loft for yet another year. Thanks to an interesting mix of […]

The goal of AWS since day one is to take technology that has limited reach and make it available to many developers. We do it with storage, compute, data warehouse, data and analytics, and now with AI.

Sunday morning I was looking at a large folder on my laptop containing hundreds of images. Thumbnails are wonderful, but what I really wanted was an easy way to search my folder quickly for photos that contained picture of cliffs. Here’s how I used Rekognition to do it.