Making the world smaller

In this section of the book, we will start building intelligence-enabled solutions through hands-on projects. These projects will not only get you familiar with Amazon's AI services, they will also help you to strengthen your intuition on how to embed intelligent capabilities into applications to solve real-world problems. We'll start with an application that can make the world smaller.

When Google revealed a new feature in its Google Lens mobile app, users could just point their phones at something around their environment and get more information about it. Google Lens essentially brought search capabilities into the real world. One particular use case of this app was the real-time language translation of text. Users can point their camera at a street sign or a restaurant menu and get the translation back as an augmented reality camera feed on the phone's display. This feature alone can make the world more accessible to everyone.

We will be implementing this pictorial translation feature for our hands-on project with AWS AI services. Our application, we'll call it Pictorial Translator, will provide similar translation capabilities, albeit with a much less embellished user interface than Google Lens.