Artificial Intelligence on Amazon Web Services

(AI-AWS.AJ1)/ISBN:978-1-64459-215-1

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TestPrep
Hand-on Lab
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Learn AI online with the Artificial Intelligence on Amazon Web Services course and lab. The lab is cloud-based, device-enabled, and can easily be integrated with an LMS. The AWS training course and lab cover some important topics in AI, such as image recognition, natural language processing, and speech recognition, and also provide a high-level understanding of AWS's AI and machine learning services and platforms. The course will guide you through the process of setting up Python, the AWS SDK, and web development tools.

Lessons

14+ Lessons | 100+ Quizzes | 100+ Flashcards | 100+ Glossary of terms

TestPrep

50+ Pre Assessment Questions | 50+ Post Assessment Questions |

Hand on lab

18+ LiveLab | 00+ Minutes

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Lessons 1: Preface

  • Who this course is for
  • What this course covers
  • Conventions used

Lessons 2: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence on Amazon Web Services

  • What is AI?
  • Overview of AWS AI offerings
  • Getting familiar with the AWS CLI
  • Using Python for AI applications
  • First project with the AWS SDK
  • Summary
  • References

Lessons 3: Anatomy of a Modern AI Application

  • Understanding the success factors of artificial intelligence applications
  • Understanding the architecture design principles for AI applications
  • Understanding the architecture of modern AI applications
  • Creation of custom AI capabilities
  • Working with a hands-on AI application architecture
  • Developing an AI application locally using AWS Chalice
  • Developing a demo application web user interface
  • Summary
  • Further reading

Lessons 4: Detecting and Translating Text with Amazon Rekognition and Translate

  • Making the world smaller
  • Understanding the architecture of Pictorial Translator 
  • Setting up the project structure
  • Implementing services
  • Implementing RESTful endpoints
  • Implementing the web user interface
  • Deploying Pictorial Translator to AWS
  • Discussing project enhancement ideas
  • Summary
  • Further reading

Lessons 5: Performing Speech-to-Text and Vice Versa with Amazon Transcribe and Polly

  • Technologies from science fiction
  • Understanding the architecture of Universal Translator
  • Setting up the project structure
  • Implementing services
  • Implementing RESTful endpoints
  • Implementing the Web User Interface
  • Deploying the Universal Translator to AWS
  • Discussing the project enhancement ideas
  • Summary
  • References

Lessons 6: Extracting Information from Text with Amazon Comprehend

  • Working with your Artificial Intelligence coworker
  • Understanding the Contact Organizer architecture
  • Setting up the project structure
  • Implementing services
  • Implementing RESTful endpoints
  • Implementing the web user interface
  • Deploying the Contact Organizer to AWS
  • Discussing the project enhancement ideas
  • Summary
  • Further reading

Lessons 7: Building a Voice Chatbot with Amazon Lex

  • Understanding the friendly human-computer interface
  • Contact assistant architecture
  • Understanding the Amazon Lex development paradigm
  • Setting up the contact assistant bot
  • Integrating the contact assistant into applications
  • Summary
  • Further reading

Lessons 8: Working with Amazon SageMaker

  • Technical requirements
  • Preprocessing big data through Spark EMR
  • Conducting training in Amazon SageMaker
  • Deploying the trained Object2Vec and running inference
  • Running hyperparameter optimization (HPO)
  • Understanding the SageMaker experimentation service
  • Bring your own model – SageMaker, MXNet, and Gluon
  • Bring your own container – R model
  • Summary
  • Further reading

Lessons 9: Creating Machine Learning Inference Pipelines

  • Technical requirements
  • Understanding the architecture of the inference pipeline in SageMaker
  • Creating features using Amazon Glue and SparkML
  • Identifying topics by training NTM in SageMaker
  • Running online versus batch inferences in SageMaker
  • Summary
  • Further reading

Lessons 10: Discovering Topics in Text Collection

  • Technical requirements
  • Reviewing topic modeling techniques
  • Understanding how the Neural Topic Model works
  • Training NTM in SageMaker
  • Deploying the trained NTM model and running the inference
  • Summary
  • Further reading

Lessons 11: Classifying Images Using Amazon SageMaker

  • Walking through convolutional neural and residual networks
  • Classifying images through transfer learning in Amazon SageMaker
  • Performing inference through Batch Transform
  • Summary
  • Further reading

Lessons 12: Sales Forecasting with Deep Learning and Auto Regression

  • Technical requirements
  • Understanding traditional time series forecasting
  • How the DeepAR model works
  • Understanding model sales through DeepAR
  • Predicting and evaluating sales
  • Summary
  • Further reading

Lessons 13: Model Accuracy Degradation and Feedback Loops

  • Monitoring models for degraded performance
  • Developing a use case for evolving training data – ad-click conversion
  • Creating a machine learning feedback loop
  • Summary
  • Further reading

Lessons 14: What Is Next?

  • Summarizing the concepts we learned in Part I
  • Summarizing the concepts we learned in Part II
  • Summarizing the concepts we learned in Part III
  • Summarizing the concepts we learned in Part IV
  • What's next?
  • Summary

Hands-on LAB Activities

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence on Amazon Web Services

  • Using the Amazon Rekognition Service
  • Creating an Amazon S3 Bucket
  • Installing Python on Linux
  • Installing Python on Windows
  • Creating a Python Virtual Environment and Project with the AWS SDK

Anatomy of a Modern AI Application

  • Developing an AI Application Locally and a Demo Application Web User Interface
  • Hosting an S3 Static Website

Detecting and Translating Text with Amazon Rekognition and Translate

  • Using Amazon Translate

Performing Speech-to-Text and Vice Versa with Amazon Transcribe and Polly

  • Using Amazon Transcribe and Polly

Extracting Information from Text with Amazon Comprehend

  • Creating an Amazon DynamoDB Table
  • Using Amazon Comprehend

Building a Voice Chatbot with Amazon Lex

  • Using Amazon Lex to Build a Chat Box

Working with Amazon SageMaker

  • Creating a Model

Creating Machine Learning Inference Pipelines

  • Using AWS Glue

Discovering Topics in Text Collection

  • Using Amazon SageMaker Notebook Instance
  • Building and Training a Machine Learning Model
  • Creating an Endpoint Configuration

Sales Forecasting with Deep Learning and Auto Regression

  • Using Lifecycle Configurations in SageMaker