Among Amazon’s AI announcements is Amazon SageMaker, which lets companies build and quickly train machine learning algorithms. Throughout 2017 both Microsoft and Google announced AI services that rival those unveiled this week by AWS.Already Apple, Facebook, Amazon and other top tech companies are developing and using AI for their own products, but the new offerings from AWS could make it easier and more affordable for startups and less tech-savvy enterprises to implement AI technology. Machine learning (ML) is a subset of AI in which sophisticated computer algorithms are developed to recognize patterns in large volumes of data to solve problems on their own. Amazon this week announced a flurry of new machine learning features for its Amazon Web Services cloud computing business, raising its challenge to Silicon Valley’s biggest tech firms for the lead in artificial intelligence. And Google Cloud Platform introduced the Google Natural Language API, a rival to the new Amazon Comprehend, last November.Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to machines carrying out tasks that are normally associated with human intelligence.The product announcements made at AWS’s annual conference in Las Vegas, cap off a year in which Amazon released 1,300 new AWS features, up from a little more than 1,000 in 2016.Among Amazon’s AI announcements is Amazon SageMaker, which lets companies build and quickly train machine learning algorithms.Microsoft, for example, offered Translator, a direct competitor to the new Amazon Translate, as far back as 2011, Microsoft said.”

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