6 questions you must answer to identify your best way to implement AI

Commodity artificial intelligence-as-a-Service (AI-aaS) offerings are popping up everywhere. Just as you can whip out a credit card and spin up a virtual data center in Amazon, Microsoft, or Google's cloud, you can now call on previously trained machine learning clusters to handle your AI chores. Using an API, you can upload a photo library to Google Cloud Vision or Amazon Rekognition to have the program scan it for objects, faces, logos, or terms of service violations in seconds, for fractions of a penny per image. Any business can now deploy the same technology used by the Google Photos app and Amazon Prime Photos to automatically categorize and label smartphone snaps based on the people, objects, and landmarks inside them. Real estate companies use image recognition to allow prospective home buyers to search for houses whose appearance pleases them. Car companies like Kia use AI to customize marketing campaigns based on the photos people post to social media.