#GlueCon 2014 Notes: Enhancing Your Cloud Applications with Artificial Intelligence – Elliot Turner, AlchemyAPI

(Notes by @tomkane)

Enhancing Your Cloud Applications with Artificial Intelligence – Elliot Turner, AlchemyAPI

• One big advantage is offloading specialized, intensive computation to beefy servers.
• Speech Recognition
  • Examples
    • Tag alert words in a video
    • Customer service call is flagged on terms such as “fraud”, “phishing”, etc. and fraud team is automatically engaged.
  • APIs
    • Nuance
    • AT&T
• Computer Vision
  • Example
    • Every moment Leonardo DiCaprio appears in a movie.
    • Filter out inappropriate content.
  • APIs
    • moodstocks (logos & barcodes)
    • AlchemyAPI (3D objects: cars, dogs, bldgs)
    • koaaba (logos & wine bottles)
• Machine Translation
  • Examples
    • real-time translation of forum posts & IM chats
    • search within foreign language documents
  • APIs
    • Google
    • Microsoft
• Natural Language Processing
  • Semantics, sentiment analysis,
  • Examples
    • track disease incidence within a country
  • APIs
    • Lexalytics
    • AlchemyAPI
    • OpenAmplify
• Expert in a box: answering questions
  • Examples
    • Jeopardy type questions
  • APIs
    • IBM Watson (machine learning – e.g. on your corpus)
    • WolframAlpha (curated)
• Automated reasoning: Machine Learning
  • Examples
    • predictive models (conversion rate of a prospect)
    • identity fraud & anomalous activities
    • analyze customer churn
  • APIs
    • Google Prediction (API only)
    • bigml (API & GUI)
• Sample AI App
  • AT&T Speech API for speech -> text
  • Translate from French -> English w/ Google Translate
  • Take picture of item
  • Use AlchemyAPI to interpret photograph (of mushroom)
  • Use IBM Watson to answer question.
    • Yes, that mushroom is poisonous