Talking Points

  • Where is Machine Learning being used today? Where are personalized recommendations being used in our lives? E-commerce sites? Streaming platforms? Credit card or insurance selection?

  • Machine learning has been democratized and placed in the hands of regular developers

  • Amazon Personalize is one of many AWS Machine Learning services that simplifies previously difficult to achieve tasks

  • Although we’re currently using purchase history in this case, demographics can also be used to provide personalized recommendations

  • Data is the new oil! If you have the right data, the benefits you can derive from it are endless

  • How training a machine learning model works at an extremely high level