Amazon's vision is to use the expertise and lessons learned from customers and the thousands of engineers focused on AI at Amazon to put intelligence in the hands of as many developers as possible, so that AI is available to everyone, irrespective of their level of technical skill or ability.
At the highest level, for developers who don’t currently possess the technical skills required to implement AI models, or who lack the high-quality, “ground truth” data to train them, we provide AI services: Amazon Rekognition for image and facial analysis, Amazon Polly for text-to-speech, and Amazon Lex, an automatic speech recognition and natural language understanding service for building conversational chat bots. No deep learning expertise needed here: just visit the AWS console to get started. One level down, for customers with existing data who want to build custom models, we provide a set of AI platforms which remove the undifferentiated heavy lifting associated with deploying and managing AI training and model hosting: Amazon Machine Learning (with both batch and real-time prediction on custom linear models) and Amazon EMR (with Spark and Spark ML support).
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