How AI is helping Amazon become a trillion-dollar company

From time to time, usually on garbage night, the animals wander into Sivasubramanian's backyard to pillage his trash. But try as they might, he and his family had never managed to spot the intruders. "My wife really wanted to see these bears in action," says Sivasubramanian, Amazon's VP of machine learning. "She will always try to stay up looking for bears to visit, and she wants me to give her company." He founded his solution in DeepLens, a new video camera system from Amazon Web Services that lets anyone with programming skills employ deep learning to automate various tasks.