Devin Harper@phdharp

Artificial Intelligence APIs: For Developers Who Must Build Smarter Applications

Pioneer of web services for real-time text and image analysis

• Founded in 2005 • 40,000+ users • Used in 36+ countries • More than 3+ billion API calls monthly • Deep learning experts

Devin Harper, AI Research Scientist AlchemyVision

Meet the Expert

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What You’ll Learn Today

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What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)?

We’re not talking about killer robots…

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Speech Recognition Machine Translation

Computer Vision Natural Language Processing

Question Answering Machine Learning #deeplearningseries

The AI Revolution…

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How are these methods being used?

• Driving recommendation engines

• Statisticians derive structured data from ambiguous information

• E-commerce

• Advertising & social media marketing

• Google Dataflow

• Consumer Products

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What APIs are available?

AT&T provides a straightforward API to convert speech data to natural text.

https://developer.att.com/apis/speech "

Speech Recognition

AI APIs

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curl "https://api.att.com/speech/v3/speechToText" \!

--header "Authorization: Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}" \!

--header "Accept: application/json" \!

--header "Content-Type: audio/amr" \!

--data-binary @{PATH_TO_FILE} \!

--request POST

APP IDEA Medical personnel

transcribe dictation of pt. notes into text

{! "Recognition": {! "Status": "Ok",! "ResponseId": "3125ae74122628f44d265c231f8fc926",! "NBest": [! {! "Hypothesis": "patient experiences chronic anxiety

! ! ! ! ! ! ! reaction to external stimulus",! "LanguageId": "en-us",! "Confidence": 0.9,! "Grade": "accept",! "ResultText": "patient experiences chronic anxiety

! ! ! ! ! ! ! reaction to external stimulus",! "Words": [! “patient", “experiences", “chronic”, “anxiety",! “reaction”, “to”, “external", "stimulus"! ],! "WordScores": [! 0.92, 0.73, 0.81, 0.96, 0.74, 0.97, 0.81, 0.69! ]! }! ]! }!}

AlchemyAPI provides an API for generating a list of keywords based on an input image.

http://www.alchemyapi.com/products/alchemyvision/ "

Computer Vision

AI APIs

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wget -O tags --post-file image.jpg “http://access.alchemyapi.com/calls/image/ ImageGetRankedImageKeywords?apikey={API_KEY}&outputMode=json”!

APP IDEA Ecommerce -

consumer takes photo & receives

product recommendation

{! "status": "OK",! "usage": "By accessing AlchemyAPI or using information generated …,! "totalTransactions": "4",! "imageKeywords": [ {! "text": "iphone",! "score": "0.99593"! },! {! "text": "apple",! "score": "0.622459"! }! ]!}

Computer Vision

AI APIs

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Enables computers to derive meaning from human or natural language input (i.e. text, articles, chats, emails, etc.)

Natural Language Processing (NLP) AI APIs

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NLP determines… WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE and WHY …in unstructured data.

Use it to: •  Drive content recommendation

engines •  Track sentiment on Twitter •  Monitor social media for trends and

consumer preferences •  Determine how people feel about a

your brand or product •  Tag documents by topic •  Perform contextual ad targeting

APP IDEA Stock tracker – Follow news & consumer

perception re: companies you care

about

Natural Language Processing

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AlchemyAPI provides an extensive suite of NLP capabilities through REST APIs.

wget -O sentiment.txt “http://access.alchemyapi.com/calls/text/!

TextGetRankedNamedEntities?apikey={API_KEY}&outputMode=json&sentiment=1

&text=Google strengthens hardware expertise by acquiring Gecko Design”

wget -O entities.txt “http://access.alchemyapi.com/calls/url/

URLGetRankedNamedEntities?apikey={API_KEY}&outputMode=json&sentiment=1

&url=http://seekingalpha.com/news/1949845-google-strengthens-hardware-expertise-

by-acquiring-gecko-design”

Raw Text

Crawling a URL

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Try the demo: http://www.alchemyapi.com/products/demo/alchemylanguage/ "

{! "text": "Google strengthens hardware expertise by acquiring Gecko Design",! "entities": [! {! "type": "Company",! "relevance": "0.33",! "sentiment": {! "type": "positive",! "score": "0.639044"! },! "count": "1",! "text": "Google",! },! {! "type": "Company",! "relevance": "0.33",! "sentiment": {! "type": "positive",! "score": "0.639044"! },! "count": "1",! "text": "Gecko Design"! }! ]!}

Other Services

AI APIs

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Machine Translation Use it to: translate foreign-language content for your users, translate forum posts or chats, translate customer support emails

Question Answering

Machine Learning

Use it to: leverage questions like "was this company acquired?" to trigger processes in data pipelines or GUI displays, answer questions from your own data

Use it to: predict a prospect's likelihood to convert based on historical data, analyze customer churn

APP IDEA Customer Service - Enable customer support in any

language https://cloud.google.com/products/translate-api "

http://products.wolframalpha.com/api/ "

https://bigml.com/developers/ "

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EXAMPLE An AI-Driven App

Better understand customer feedback

The Challenge

As an application developer for a customer support center, I want to process thousands of emails so that I can:

• Determine how customers feel about our brand

• Understand how customers’ feedback evolves over time

• Discover interesting trends within sales and support data

• Develop meaningful reports for VP of Customer Support that show trends across time and product lines

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Build a customer support email analysis engine A Solution

What it will do: • Collect support email data • Process email content (uses AI) • Store data • Provide visual representation of

data for analysis

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Basic Workflow

Customer Support Email Analysis Engine

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curl “https://www.googleapis.com/gmail/v1/users/alchemist@alchemyapi.com/messages/

147fe7dc5f9617e8?format=full&access_token={ACCESS_TOKEN}”

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curl “https://www.googleapis.com/gmail/v1/users/alchemist@alchemyapi.com/messages/

147fe7dc5f9617e8?format=full&access_token={ACCESS_TOKEN}”

curl -o sentiment.txt “http://access.alchemyapi.com/calls/text/

TextGetTextSentiment&apikey={API_KEY}&outputMode=xml&text=I just love using the services

provided by AlchemyAPI”

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curl “https://www.googleapis.com/gmail/v1/users/alchemist@alchemyapi.com/messages/

147fe7dc5f9617e8?format=full&access_token={ACCESS_TOKEN}”

INSERT INTO CustomerEmailSentimentTable (CustomerName, Domain, Text, Sentiment)

VALUES (‘WeLoveAlchemy’, ‘welovealchemy.com’, ‘I just love using the services provided by

AlchemyAPI’, ‘positive’)

curl -o sentiment.txt “http://access.alchemyapi.com/calls/text/

TextGetTextSentiment&apikey={API_KEY}&outputMode=xml&text=I just love using the services

provided by AlchemyAPI”

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Enjoy the analysis!

wget -O sentiment.txt “http://access.alchemyapi.com/calls/url/TextGetTextSentiment&apikey={API_KEY}&outputMode=xml&text=Google strengthens hardware expertise by acquiring Gecko Design”

INSERT INTO CustomerEmailSentimentTable (CustomerName, Domain, Text, Sentiment) VALUES (‘WeLoveAlchemy’, ‘welovealchemy.com’, ‘I just love using the services provided by AlchemyAPI’, ‘positive’)

curl “https://www.googleapis.com/gmail/v1/users/alchemist@alchemyapi.com/messages/147fe7dc5f9617e8?format=full&access_token={ACCESS_TOKEN}”

What We’ve Covered

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What’s Next? Get Started

•  Test deep learning with your own applications: Free API Key: http://www.alchemyapi.com/api/register.html

•  Get started with the guide: http://www.alchemyapi.com/developers/getting-started-guide/

•  SDKs available at: https://github.com/AlchemyAPI

•  Need help? Contact support@alchemyapi.com

Thursday, September 18 How Google Does It: Big and Fast

Semantic Analytics Pipelines

http://www.alchemyapi.com/how-google-does-semantic-analysis-webinar/

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What’s Next? APIs Discussed Today

•  AT&T Speech API - https://developer.att.com/apis/speech •  AlchemyVision - http://www.alchemyapi.com/products/alchemyvision/

•  AlchemyLanguage - http://www.alchemyapi.com/products/alchemylanguage/

•  Google Translate - https://developers.google.com/translate/ •  Wolfram Alpha - http://products.wolframalpha.com/api/

•  BigML - https://bigml.com/developers/ •  Visualization Services - https://developers.google.com/chart/,

http://matplotlib.org/contents.html

•  JSON Libraries - http://json.org/, https://docs.python.org/2/library/json.html

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