Amazon is applying its AI tools to develop better cyber security

This article originally appeared on The Motley Fool. Inc. has been making quite a push into the field of artificial intelligence (AI). Its most public example of this effort, Alexa, its voice-activated digital assistant, controls the Echo smart speaker and Echo Dot, which were top sellers on Amazon's website over the holidays. Those familiar with Amazon Web Services (AWS), an industry leader in cloud computing, may also be aware of the AI-based tools the company has recently made available to AWS customers: Rekognition for building image recognition apps; Polly for translating text to speech; and Lex, to build conversational bots. Amazon also is adding cyber-security to its AI resume.