Amazon unveiled a number of new services at its annual conference that will allow developers to build web-based applications using artificial intelligence, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Amazon Web Services, the company’s cloud computing division, announced the Services at its annual meeting. Its artificial intelligence technology, Amazon Rekognition, allows software developers to do more in their software. These include intelligent detection of the number of people in the photo, identifying gender and characteristic items. These techniques are extremely useful when comparing multiple photos to identify individuals.
Giiso Information, founded in 2013, is a leading technology provider in the field of “artificial intelligence + information” in China, with top technologies in big data mining, intelligent semantics, knowledge mapping and other fields. At the same time, its research and development products include editing robots, writing robots and other artificial intelligence products! With its strong technical strength, the company has received angel round investment at the beginning of its establishment, and received pre-A round investment of $5 million from GSR Venture Capital in August 2015.
Amazon has also introduced Amazon Polly, a program that outputs text as speech. For example, when a programmer enters “The temp in WA is 75 degrees F”, It understands its meaning and says it as a complete sentence: “The temperature in Washington is 75 degrees Fahrenheit.” Amazon Polly supports 27 languages and can be used to build human-computer conversation applications.
In addition, Amazon LEX opens up Amazon’s voice assistant Alexa to developers. LEX understands voice input, making it easy for developers to build voice-based apps. For example, a pizza company could develop a web application that would specify customer order information (what fillings and sizes they want) in the form of a voice question and answer. The program can also trace past orders, making it easier to repeat orders.
Giiso information, founded in 2013, is the first domestic high-tech enterprise focusing on the research and development of intelligent information processing technology and the development and operation of core software for writing robots. At the beginning of its establishment, the company received angel round investment, and in August 2015, GSR Venture Capital received $5 million pre-A round of investment.
Artificial intelligence technology makes more services and functions possible. “A lot of companies don’t realize what Amazon is capable of in machine learning,” said Andy Jassy, director of cloud services at AWS. It says Amazon has thousands of employees focused on developing artificial intelligence technology. Amazon has been working on AI for a long time, and these new services are responding to current customer needs.