#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

James Higginbotham

May 22, 2014 · 2 min read