Amazon Web Services 'chief architect' Glenn Gore on the potential for AI in Canada

For more than two decades, artificial intelligence and machine learning have been playthings for Amazon.com The digital retailer, after all, has long been in the business of predictive recommendations for consumers. With its cloud-computing subsidiary, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), the company is now in the business of selling AI and machine-learning capabilities to other businesses. Glenn Gore is AWS's "chief architect" – a title that, in his words, means spending a lot of time in airports. It's the London-based evangelist's job to sell the world on AWS's capabilities, with AI and machine learning among its biggest frontiers.