AWS steps up AI focus

AWS has announced three new features for its artificial intelligence portfolio at re:Invent 2016 in Las Vegas this week. Artificial intelligence is a development which could have wide ranging impacts on businesses throughout the world, and while many have been sceptical about its effectiveness the technology is starting to make waves. Google recently announced a few changes to the way its translation tool works with AI, IBM's Watson seems to be making progress constantly and Salesforce's Einstein is paying off with the company growing year-on-year. Considering the normalization of artificial intelligence and growing acceptance in the technology world, it wasn't going to be long before the public cloud leader started making itself known. And sure enough just in time for Christmas, the AWS team has put forward three new features for developers to play with.