Add Intelligence to Applications with AWS AI Services

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Add Intelligence to Applications
with AWS AI Services
Nicholas Walsh (@TheNickWalsh)
Technical Evangelist
AWS
A I M 2 0 1

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A little about me…
- Background in data science + AI/ML + BME
- Previous work: Wolfram Research, Datmo, SBU Med
- Gaming nerd (CS:GO, DOTA2, WoW, LoL)
- Python <3
- RStudio is my favorite IDE

Our mission at AWS
Put machine learning in the hands
of every developer

Why AWS for AI?
Broadest and deepest set
of AI and ML services for
your business
Solving the toughest
problems holding back ML
- cost, ease of use, and
data
75% lower inference cost
70% cost reduction in data-
labeling
“No ML experience required”
Unmatched support for
the most popular
frameworks
Built on the most
comprehensive cloud
platform optimized for
machine learning
85% of TensorFlow
projects in the cloud
happen on AWS
200+ new features and
services since Jan 2018
AWS holds the top spots on
Stanford’s benchmark, for
fastest training time, lowest
cost, lowest inference latency
Deepest set of security and
encryption features, with robust
analytics capabilities

More machine learning happens on AWS than anywhere else

FRAMEWORKS AND INTERFACES
ML for data scientists
KERAS
Frameworks Interfaces
APPLICATION SERVICES
ML for everyone
INFRASTRUCTURE
Powering the ML
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INFERENCE
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Vision Speech Language Chatbots Forecasting Recommendations
The Amazon ML stack: Broadest & deepest set of capabilities
PLATFORM SERVICES
ML for engineers
A M A Z O N S A G E M A K E R
B U I L D T R A I N D E P L O Y
Pre-built Algorithms and Notebooks One-click model training and tuning One-click deployment and hosting
Data Labeling (Ground Truth) Optimization (NEO) Automatic scaling
Machine Learning Marketplace Reinforcement Learning Elastic Inference Integration
Hyperparameter Optimization VPC and AWS PrivateLink

Pre-trained AI services that require
no ML skills or training
Easily add intelligence to your
existing apps and workflows
Quality and accuracy from
continuously-learning APIs
APPLICATION SERVICES
ML for everyone
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Common misconception:
“My AI Problem is unique to
my business. “
(Hint: It probably isn’t)

Documents are important
Primary tool of record keeping, communicating, collaborating, and transacting
Finance
Insurance
Real estate
Accounting
Tax management
Medical
Legal
Business management
Education
And many more…

16.3M US mortgage applications ($2.1T) in 2016
*

About 240M W2 tax forms will be processed for FY2018 in
the US
*

Need for processing documents

How documents are processed today
Optical Character
Recognition (OCR)
Manual
processing
Rules and
template-based extraction

Challenges for processing documents
Manual processing
Expensive Error-prone Time-consuming

Manual processing
Output
1. Exempt is true
2. 28 is true
3. CPP/QPP is true
4. RPC/RRQ is true

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Error-prone Flat bag of wordsSimple documents only

Output
Extract data quickly & No code templates to
accurately maintain

Output
Start Date End Date Employer Name Position Held Reason for leaving
1/15/2009 6/30/2013 Any Company Head Baker Family Relocated

Output
Full Name Date of Birth Gender
John X Doe 01 01 1971
Male
First Middle Last MM DD YYYY
Female

Rules- and template-based extraction
Limited by
accuracy of OCR
Significant development
and management overhead
Templates
are brittle

Rules- and template-based extraction
The well-known W2 US tax form has 100s of variants each year

It looks easy, but …
…not a single corresponding pixel value in common

OCR++ service to easily extract text and data from
virtually any document. No ML experience required.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/10/amazon-textract-now-extracts-text-even-more-
accurately-from-even-more-types-of-documents/

Put AI to work, no ML experience required
Increase efficiency with automated document analysis
optical character recognition (OCR) | automatic data extraction | natural language processing
intelligent search | text analytics
C O M P R E H E N D &
C O M P R E H E N D M E D I C A L
A M A Z O N
T E X T R A C T

Amazon Textract features
Text extraction Table extraction Form extraction

Amazon Textract—Text extraction
Blocks: PAGE, PARAGRAPH, LINE, WORD
is washed by waves, and cooled

Name Description
Blocks List of blocks identified
from the document
ID Unique ID of the unit
Relationships CHILD
Block type PAGE, PARAGRAPH, LINE, WORD
Pages Contains number of
pages in the document
Amazon Textract—Text extraction API
DetectDocumentText
Name Description
Document Blob or Amazon S3
object

Blocks: PAGE, TABLE, CELL
For each ’block’ you get:
• Text
• Confidence score
• Block relationships (e.g., cells within a table)
Amazon Textract—Table extraction API
AnalyzeDocument with “table” as FeatureTypes parameter

Amazon Textract—Form extraction
AnalyzeDocument with “form” as FeatureTypes parameter
Blocks: PAGE, KEY_VALUE_SET
For each ’block’ of your document:
• Form field name (key) and field value (value) association
• Confidence score
• Page number
• Block relationships

Supports single-page
documents such
as images (e.g.,
mobile capture)
For multipage documents,
up to 3,000 pages
Amazon Textract
Sync and async

Amazon Textract
Text extraction simplified
Output
Extract data quickly &
accurately
No code or templates to
maintain

Output {
Start Date: 1/15/2009
End Date: 6/30/2013
Employer Name: Any Company
Position Held: Head Baker
Reason for leaving: Family relocated
}
Amazon Textract
Table extraction simplified

Output Full Name:
First: John
Middle: X
Last: Doe
Date of Birth:
MM: 01
DD: 01
YYYY: 1971
Gender:
Male: True
Female: False
Amazon Textract
Form extraction simplified

Add Intelligence to Applications with AWS AI Services

Reference architecture—Index and search documents
Input
Uploaded document
images such as tax
forms, credit
applications, or
medical notes
Amazon S3
Uploaded documents
are stored in data lake
AWS Lambda
A Lambda function is
triggered to initiate
document analysis
using the
Hieroglyph API
Amazon Textract
Automatically extract
text, including key-
value pairs and tables
Amazon
Elasticsearch
Service
Extracted data and
confidence scores are
indexed to enable
document search
Output
Perform contextual
search on millions of
documents or
integrate data into
your document
management system

Reference architecture—Form capture
Input
Customer uses mobile app
to capture a photo of a
W2 form
Amazon Textract
The Amazon Textract API is
integrated into the end-
user application to
automatically extract text
from the W2 form and
auto-populate the
form fields
Customer Application
Customers experience real-
time capture of their tax
information by taking a
photo instead of manual
data entry
Database
User submitted data is
loaded into a database
for use in tax
preparation

Reference architecture—Extract for NLP
Quickly turn extracted text/data into actionable insights
Input
Uploaded document
images of medical
notes, explanation of
benefits, and
patient forms
Amazon S3
Uploaded documents
are stored in S3
NLP
Use natural language
processing to extract
insights from
medical documents
Amazon
Elasticsearch
Service
Easily search through
extracted data and
text insights
Output
Discover medical
insights to improve
patient care
Amazon Textract
Automatically extract
words and lines of text,
and tables

Amazon Rekognition
Deep-learning-based image & video analysis

Faces Celebrities Labels
Moderation ScenesActivities Paths
Text
Amazon Rekognition
Features

Customer Analysis
Analyze trends, not individuals
Recognize Your Customer
Verify the identities of customers who opt-in
Amazon Rekognition
Face – common use cases

Recognize your customer
Verify the identities of customers who opt-in
Amazon Rekognition
Face – common use cases

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Real-time
identity verification
Aella Credit uses Amazon Rekognition to
analyze images to verify an individual’s identity in
real-time without human intervention, allowing it
to provide instant loans to eligible customers
through its mobile app.

Discover insights and relationships in text

Amazon Polly
Use Cases
Content Creation
Mobile & Desktop Applications
Internet of Things (IoT)
Education & E-Learning
Telephony
Game Development
Key Features
52 Voices across 25 languages
Lip-Syncing & Text Highlighting
Fine-grained Voice Control
Custom Vocabularies
Available in 14 AWS regions

Amazon Transcribe
Automatic Speech Recognition
TimestampsSupport for
both regular &
telephony audio
Punctuation
&
formatting
Amazon S3
integration
Recognize
multiple
speakers
Custom
dictionaries
? !

Amazon Transcribe
Use Cases
Call
centers
Subtitles for
VOD
Transcribe meetingsBroadcast closed
captions

21 Languages
417 Combinations
Key Features
Real Time
< 500ms / sentence on average
< 150ms / conversational / short form
Tag Handling
XML tags placement maintains
styling and formatting through
translation
< / >
Data Security
Data ownership
Encryption
Access Management
Ease of Use
Simple API calls and partner
solutions
$15/1M Characters
Or $0.000075 per word;
Pay as you go, 2M characters
monthly free tier
HIPAA Eligible
Amazon Translate
Neural Machine Translation

Amazon Comprehend
Natural Language Processing
Sentiment Entities LanguagesKey phrases Topic modeling

Amazon Comprehend
Di s c o v e r i n s i g h t s a n d r e l a t i o n s h i p s i n t e x t
Entities
Key Phrases
Language
Sentiment
Syntax
Grouping
C O M P R E H E N D

Amazon Comprehend
Use cases
Voice of Customer
Analytics
Semantic Search Knowledge Management/Discovery
Analyzing what customers are saying about
your brand, products and services
Making search smarter by searching on
key phrase, sentiment and topic
Organizing documents, categorizing by
topic, and personalizing experiences

Targeted
customer acquisition
VidMob uses Amazon Rekognition and
Amazon Transcribe for metadata extraction
and sentiment analysis, to help marketers
understand which videos resonate with audiences.
This allows marketers to promote targeted
content to acquire new customers.

Detecting Customer Sentiment
Bringing it together: Multilanguage product analytics
Twitter Stream
API
S3 AthenaKinesis Translate
Lambda
Comprehend
Transcribe

Improving contact centers with AI
Amazon
Athena

Modernize your contact center to improve customer service
Live agent optimization with AI
Amazon
TranslateCustomer
Chat
Agents
live translation enables global,
multi-lingual chat
Amazon
Comprehend
real time analysis provides
next best action guidance
Amazon
Transcribe
Amazon
ConnectCustomer
Voice
Agents
Amazon
Comprehend live transcription extends
guidance for voice calls

Live call analysis with next best action and translation

Conversational interfaces for your applications
powered by the same deep learning technologies as
Alexa

Amazon Lex
Scale
Business Logic
SecurityAnalytics
Text to Speech
Speech to Intent
End to
End
Native support &
maintains context
One-click deployment
Completely managed
service
Native integration with
AWS Lambda
Encrypted data
in transit & at
rest
Monitor and
improve
Amazon Polly
integrated into API
ASR + NLU integrated
into one API
Dialog Management Deployment

Designed for builders
Efficient and intuitive tools to build conversations

Amazon Lex
Utterances
Spoken or typed phrases that invoke
your intent
BookHotel
Intents
An intent performs an action in
response to natural language user
input
Slots
Slots are input data required to fulfill
the intent
Fulfillment
Fulfillment mechanism for your intent

Amazon Lex—Technology
Amazon Lex
Automatic Speech
Recognition (ASR)
Natural Language
Understanding (NLU)
Same technology that powers Alexa
Amazon Cognito CloudTrail CloudWatch
AWS services
Action
AWS Lambda
Authentication
& Visibility
Speech
API
Language
API
Fulfillment
End Users
Developers
Console
SDK
Intents,
Slots,
Prompts,
Utterances
Input:
Speech
or Text
Multi-Platform Clients:
Mobile, IoT, Web,
Chat
API
Output:
Speech (via Amazon Polly TTS)
or Text

Amazon Lex
Use Cases
Informational
Bots
Chatbots for
everyday consumer
requests
Application
Bots
Build powerful
interfaces to mobile
applications
News updates
Weather information
Game scores ….
Book tickets
Order food
Manage bank accounts ….
Enterprise Productivity
Bots
Streamline enterprise
work activities and
improve efficiencies
Check sales numbers
Marketing performance
Inventory status ….
Internet of Things
(IoT) Bots
Enable conversational
interfaces for device
interactions
Wearables
Appliances
Auto ….
Contact Center
Bots
Chatbots for
customer service IVR
Account inquiries
Bill payment
Service update ….

Modernize your contact center to improve customer service
conversational chat bots | call transcription | intelligent routing | sentiment analysis | VoC analytics
text-to speech | multilingual omni-channel communication
A M A Z O N
P O L L Y
T R A N S C R I B E T R A N S L A T E C O M P R E H E N D A M A Z O N
L E X

Meaningful
customer interactions
Liberty Mutual uses Amazon Lex and AI Services
to develop natural language-driven conversational
apps to enable customer service agents to respond
to customer requests with real-time and
contextual intelligence, improving response time,
and quality of service.

Personalize customer experiences with targeted recommendations
recommendation technology used by Amazon.com | context-aware recommendations
sentiment analysis | VoC analytics
P E R S O N A L I Z E C O M P R E H E N DR E K O G N I T I O N
I M A G E
V I D E O

Popularity Trap
Naïve models give recommendations similar to popular items
Cold Starts
New users should get relevant recommendations, new items should show in recommendations
Scale
Recommendations should scale across millions of users and items
Real-Time
Personalization must be responsive to the changing user intent
Custom models
Personalization models must accurately reflect business context and user behavior
Amazon Personalize
Real-time personalization and recommendation

Articles, products,
videos, etc.
Age, location, etc. Amazon
Personalize
Customized
personalization &
recommendation
API
Views, signups,
conversion, etc.
Amazon Personalize

Customized
personalization &
recommendation
API
F u l l y m a n a g e d b y
A m a z o n P e r s o n a l i z e
Amazon Personalize
INSPECT
DATA
IDENTIFY
FEATURES
SELECT
ALGORITHMS
SELECT
HYPERPARAMETERS
TRAIN
MODELS
OPTIMIZE
MODELS
HOST
MODELS
BUILD FEATURE
STORE
CREATE
REAL-TIME
CACHES
Activity stream
from app
Inventory
Demographics
(optional)
Amazon Personalize

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Personalizing
customer experiences
Domino’s uses Amazon Personalize to customize
and scale relevant marketing communications to
customers based on time, context, and content,
thereby improving and enhancing their experience
with the Domino’s brand.

Accurately forecast future business outcomes
forecasting technology used by Amazon.com | multiple time-series data
forecast scheduling & visualization | supply chain integration
F O R E C A S T

Historical data
Supply chain,
inventory, etc.
Customized
forecasting API
Related “causal” data
Weather, special offers, product
details
Amazon Forecast
Amazon Forecast
Accurate time-series forecasting

Amazon Forecast
Historical data
Supply chain,
inventory, etc.
Customized
forecasting API
Inspect
data
Identify
features
Select
from 8
algorithms
Select
hyperparameters
Host
models
Load
data
Train
models
Optimize
models
Related “causal” data
Weather, special offers, product
details
F u l l y m a n a g e d b y A m a z o n
F o r e c a s t
Amazon Forecast

Amazon Forecast
Any historical
time-series
Export to CSV to
Integrate with SAP and
Oracle Supply Chain
Custom forecasts
with 3 clicks
Up to 50% more
accurate
1/10th
the cost
Retail demand Travel demand AWS usage
Revenue forecasts Web traffic Advertising demand
Generate
forecasts for:

AI Services Demo
Boilerplate React template
for a simple client side
application with components
for:
1. Amazon Transcribe
2. Amazon Polly
3. Amazon Comprehend
4. Amazon Rekognition
5. Amazon Translate
https://github.com/nmwalsh/aws-ai-services-site

AWS Machine Learning Training & Certification

RESOURCES
• Brainstorming
• Custom modeling
• Training
• Work side-by-side with Amazon experts
ML Solutions Lab
• Practical education on ML for new
and experienced practitioners
• Based on the same material used to
train Amazon developers
Machine Learning Training
and Certification
• Local meetups
• Blogs (Medium: Towards Data Science)
• Reddit (/r/MachineLearning, /r/AWS)
• Twitter! Lots of amazing folks.
Communities
• [NEW] Coursera
• https://aws.training
Online Courses

GET STARTED TODAY:
Amazon Comprehend Amazon Forecast
Amazon LexAmazon Personalize Amazon Polly Amazon Rekognition
Amazon Textract Amazon Transcribe
Amazon Translate

Thank you!
Nicholas Walsh
Technical Evangelist, AWS
nmwalsh@amazon.com
Twitter: @TheNickWalsh
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