Amazon's $250 AI camera is here to make machine learning easier

Amazon has begun shipping its delayed DeepLens, a $250 AI-powered camera which is designed to put machine learning capabilities into the hands of every software developer. Announced back in November 2017, the camera's full name is the Amazon Web Services DeepLens AI Deep Learning Video Camera. Picking that name apart, it is a camera which hooks up to Amazon's AWS web service and lets developers try their hand at creating apps which use machine learning. Amazon says it is the first video camera designed to teach developers the basics of deep learning, and to do this is comes with six sample projects to get you started. These include object detection, a system for correctly identifying cats and dogs, activity detection and face detection.