Google Sells A.I. for Building A.I. (Novices Welcome)
“But you can still build a highly accurate machine learning model.”
Like many of the world’s largest internet companies in recent years, Google has begun relying on machine learning — computer algorithms
that can learn tasks on their own by analyzing large amounts of data.
Risto Miikkulainen, a professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin who has long explored the kind of technology
that underpins Google’s new service, agreed that it had the potential to help other businesses build their own A. I.
“They aim to automate data science in general,” said Randy Olson, a data scientist at Life Epigenetics, a company in Portland, Ore.
Tech giants like Google, Amazon and Microsoft have hired a large portion of the people who specialize
in the machine learning techniques that are rapidly accelerating the progress of A. I.
Google, Amazon, Microsoft and others already offer cloud-computing services
that let businesses add existing machine learning algorithms to their own products.
Businesses can upload their own images, provide a list of objects pictured in these images and train their own computer vision systems, tackling tasks
that aren’t necessarily handled by existing technology, according to Google.
