Machine Learning

Question 1

What is AWS Rekognition?

Answer 1

A service used to recognise objects, people, text and scenes in images and videos.

Question 2

What could you use Rekognition for?

Answer 2

Content moderation, text detection, face detection and analysis

Question 3

What is AWS Polly?

Answer 3

Generates ‘lifelike’ speech from text - basically AI text to speech. Has multiple voices.

Question 4

What is Lex?

Answer 4

Lex is the same technology that powers Alexa. It allows you to convert speech into text and understand or recognise the intent of text/callers.

Question 5

What is AWS connect?

Answer 5

A service that is used to receive calls, create contact calls, and create a cloud-based contact centre. 80% cheaper than traditional contact centre options.

Question 6

What is Comprehend?

Answer 6

Like Amazon’s GPT in AWS. Natural language processing.

Question 7

What is SageMaker and what is used for?

Answer 7

Managed ML service for developers/data scientists to build ML models.
Much more difficult to use than the other ML services listed.
Labelling, training, validation and deployment can all be done in SageMaker.

Question 8

What is Kendra?

Answer 8

A fully managed document search service powered by machine learning.
Can extract answers from within a document.
Just like a search engine, learns from user interactions and prioritises answers/documents that are getting more clicks.

Question 9

What is Textract?

Answer 9

Build a recommendation system that works in real-time and can be implemented in days (as opposed to months).