Amazon Augmented AI in depth
5 min readMar 14, 2022
by Pronay Ghosh and Hiren Rupchandani
- The fundamentals of Amazon A2I were discussed in the previous article.
- Some machine learning applications necessitate human supervision, as we discovered.
- This is done to ensure the accuracy of sensitive data, to give ongoing improvements, and to retrain models with new predictions.
- In these situations, however, one is often compelled to choose between a machine learning-only or a human-only solution.
- Machine learning technologies are being integrated into the workflow of companies who want the best of both worlds.
- They do, however, wish to keep an eye on the results to assure the requisite precision.
- However, Amazon Augmented AI, also known as Amazon A2I, has your back in this scenario.
- In this article, we will know about how does Amazon A2I works, its prime features, and its pricing.
The working of Amazon A2I
- Data in any format such as structured or unstructured data is fed to the customed AI services of Amazon such as Amazon Sagemaker.
- After that models are made as per standard protocol and they are deployed into the end-server.
- Then, the working of Amazon Augmented AI comes into the picture.
- It takes the inputs from the end-user and then it predicts with the machine learning model which is already deployed into the server.
- This task returns a confidence score whose threshold has been already set by the backend team.
- Now for the predictions with higher confidence from the threshold, the A2I service passes it to the client application for model retraining.
- However, for the predictions with lower confidence scores from the threshold A2I send it for manual validation.
- The manual team validates the prediction and then again, this data point is sent to the client application for retraining.
- This ensures a better model performance depending upon the metrics that have been set by the Data Scientist who has developed the model.
Amazon Augmented AI features
1. Integration is simple:
- One can construct human review workflows for a use case with just a few clicks in the Amazon A2I dashboard.
- One may also use the Amazon A2I API to incorporate your processes into custom models created with Amazon SageMaker.
2. Working Flexibility:
- Flexibility in working with critics both inside and outside your company
For human reviewers, Amazon A2I provides numerous options. - For in-house review projects, one can use your private team of reviewers.
- Especially if one is dealing with sensitive data that needs to stay within your firm one can consider this.
- If one needs a large number of reviewers and the data isn’t secret or personal, Amazon Mechanical Turk can provide a 24x7 workforce.
- This workforce can be over 500,000 independent workers from across the world.
3. For reviewers, simple instructions are provided.
- To maintain consistency, one can use Amazon A2I to provide instructional direction to human reviewers.
- Reviewers can access these extensive instructions through their review portal.
- One can change these instructions at any moment, making it simple to add additional detail to jobs.
- Here reviewers do not frequently make mistakes or adapt to changing needs.
4. Workflows to make the human review process go faster:
- Built-in workflows in Amazon A2I route predictions to reviewers and guide them through their tasks step by step.
- Depending on the procedure, a confidence threshold or a random sampling % can be used to send predictions to reviewers.
- If you set a confidence threshold, the procedure only sends predictions that fall below it to be reviewed by humans.
- You can change these thresholds at any moment to find the best mix of precision and cost-effectiveness.
- If you choose a sampling percentage, the procedure sends a random sample of the predictions to be reviewed by humans.
- This can assist you in doing model audits to ensure that the model’s accuracy is routinely monitored.
- Reviewers can also access an online interface that has all of the instructions and resources they need to fulfill their tasks.
- Text extraction and image moderation operations are already embedded into Amazon A2I.
5. Multiple reviews will help you get better results:
- Multiple workers might be used in reviews to raise the level of confidence in the results.
- One can define the number of employees per review when creating an Amazon A2I workflow, and Amazon A2I will route each review to that many reviewers.
Amazon’s A2I-assisted pricing
- Humans and machine learning models can collaborate to improve the speed and accuracy of machine learning (ML) models using Amazon Augmented AI (Amazon A2I).
- When a human review is needed, Amazon A2I leads a human reviewer step-by-step in a procedure called a workflow.
- These workflows can be used by Amazon Mechanical Turk workers, your personnel, or third-party companies to provide labels.
- One pays for each item that has been examined by a human (which can be an image, an audio recording, a section of the text, etc).
- One pays an extra fee per human evaluated object if you utilize an AWS Marketplace Vendor or Amazon Mechanical Turk.
- There is no additional fee per reviewed object if one is utilizing their own workers to do reviews.
- One can have a brief overview of the Amazon A2I pricing with Amazon Rekognition with the below image
- Apart from that if one wants to have a clear overview of the pricing then please do check here.
Conclusion:
- So far in this article, we covered a high-level overview of the working principle and pricing of Amazon Augmented AI.
- In the next article, we will learn about Amazon Lex which is a fun AI-based chatbot development service offered by AWS.
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