Goo gle launches Cloud AutoML to automatically build custom AI models
1Goo.gle launches Cloud AutoML to automatically build custom AI models.
Google announced a new cloud service today that’s designed to make it easier for companies to create custom machine learning algorithms for processing images. Called Cloud AutoML Vision, the system allows developers to upload a bunch of images to Google’s cloud and receive a custom model in return.
It’s based on Google’s research into training machine learning models to construct models, in order to perform well at particular tasks. In theory, companies should be able to feed the system a set of sample images and within a day, get back an automatically trained model that’s optimized for just their data.
Cloud AutoML, which will eventually expand beyond images, is supposed to help bridge the gap between the companies that need custom machine learning tools and the handful that are able to pay top dollar for the technical talent needed to implement those same tools. By creating a system that can build its own models, Google is hoping to make advanced machine learning systems more accessible to everyday developers who don’t necessarily have all the skills.
Machine learning systems that create custom models, especially in the vision space, are nothing new. What sets Google’s apart is its ability to create a bespoke model without human intervention, something that the company helped pioneer. Salesforce is working in a similar space with its own AI products, but it’s difficult to determine how similar or different the two are at this juncture.