ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK: Glimpse of the future has audience gasping
Five of the technology announcements at the re:Invent conference that drew the loudest applause
It's not often that a technology conference keynote draws gasps of surprise from the audience. Steve Jobs pulled it off in the early iPhone and iPad unveilings, and Samsung and Google occasionally get the reaction at new product launches. This week, in a marathon keynote address at the Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, CEO Andy Jassy delivered a tour de force of announcements that may well mark a milestone in the history of artificial intelligence. In a two-and-a-half-hour presentation, he unveiled 22 new products and services. He clearly relished the "aahs and oohs" of the audience as he offered all businesses powerful new capabilities in AI and its hi-tech siblings - machine learning and deep learning. AWS, Amazon's cloud division, is on track to increase revenue this year by 50%, to $18-billion (about R246-billion), and much of that growth is based on the continual roll-out of new services. However, the scope of innovation unveiled this week was startling. Th...
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