Alchemy API Presentation

Alchemy API Presentation at MHacks 2013

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1. Artificial Intelligence as a Service (AI-a-a-S) Text Analysis • Image Recognition
2. API Evangelist • hack@alchemyapi.com hack.alchemyapi.com • @SteveHerschleb Steve
3. About AlchemyAPI • Startup in Denver, CO • Founded in 2009 • 13 employees • 35,000 developers • 3.5 billion monthly calls
4. Why would you use AlchemyAPI? • Do something with unstructured content • • If your app uses text, you can probably utilize AlchemyAPI • • Huge stacks of cash x 3
5. What can you do with AlchemyAPI? • From a block of text or URL: • • Identify keywords • Identify companies, people and locations • Detect sentiment • Extract the high level concepts • Web crawl • Categorize the text • Extract the author • Detect the language
6. Example Hacks “Visual conversations” • Analyzes spoken conversations Links helpful images and articles • http://audeo.worldwedream.org/audeo.html •
7. Example Hacks “What’s the vibe of the show?” • Follows your favorite artist on tour Calculates the vibe of each show from Tweets • http://www.concertvibe.com/
8. How to use AlchemyAPI? • REST API • Send an HTTP request w/ text or URL • Receive JSON or XML response • A couple gotchas: • You’ll need an API key • Lots of optional parameters, check the docs • • hack.alchemyapi.com
9. Image Recognition • Applied similar technology to vision • • Upload an image, we’ll tell you what it is • Vision Demo • •
10. Image Recognition • Coarse and fine grained classifications • • Image similarities • • Sadly, coming soon. •
11. We’re Hiring! • Artificial intelligence, machine learning, neural networks, massive-scale web crawling, image recognition, distributed computing . . . • • Work on challenging problems • • We’re VC-backed and profitable • • We want to spend our money on engineers
12. API Evangelist • hack@alchemyapi.com hack.alchemyapi.com • @SteveHerschleb Steve