Introduction to Artificial Intelligence on Amazon Web Services

In this chapter, we will start with a high-level overview of artificial intelligence (AI), including its history and the broad set of methods that it uses. Then, we will take a look at a few applications of AI that have the potential to profoundly change our world. With growing interests in AI, many companies, including Amazon, are offering a plethora of tools and services to help developers create intelligent-enabled applications. We will provide a high-level overview of AI offerings from Amazon Web Services, and we will also provide our guidance on how to best leverage them. Being a hands-on book, we will quickly dive into intelligent-enabled application development with Amazon Web Services.

We will cover the following topics:

• Overview of AI and its applications.
• Understanding the different types of Amazon Web Services offerings for AI.
• How to set up an Amazon Web Services account and the environment for intelligent-enabled application development.
• Get hands-on experience with Amazon Rekognition and other supporting services.
• Develop our first intelligent-enabled application.