Every Amazon Echo, Google Home, Sonos One, or similar device in your house that recognizes your voice, and every smartphone through which you've ever spoken with Siri, Alexa, or Cortana, has an open and direct channel to servers someplace on the back end that are running artificial intelligence. By volume, the category of AI application that is at or near the top of the most actively deployed list is not decision making or forecasting but speech recognition. As bandwidth becomes more plentiful and functions on the cloud more accessible, object recognition from video or photographs will not be far behind for long. Also: What is AWS DeepLens? In November 2017, Amazon Web Services launched a real-world experiment to determine just how soon object recognition may become both viable and reliable. Like Echo, DeepLens is an Amazon device suitable for at-home deployment.