Amazon's Giving Away the AI Behind Its Product Recommendations

Amazon has become the latest tech giant that's giving away some of its most sophisticated technology. Today the company unveiled DSSTNE (pronounced "destiny"), an open source artificial intelligence framework that the company developed to power its product recommendation system. Now any company, researcher, or curious tinkerer can use it for their own AI applications. It's the latest in series of projects recently open sourced by large tech companies all focused on a branch of AI called deep learning. Google, Facebook, and Microsoft have mainly used these systems for tasks like image and speech recognition.