Practical AI on the Google Cloud Platform

AI is complicated, but cloud providers have stepped in to make it easier, offering free (or affordable) state-of-the-art models and training tools to get you started. In this book, AI novices will learn how to use Google’s AI-powered cloud services to do everything from analyzing text, images, and video to creating a chatbot.

Author Micheal Lanham takes you step-by-step through building models, training them, and then expanding on them to accomplish increasingly complex tasks. If you have a good grasp of math and the Python language, this book will get you up and running with Google Cloud Platform, whether you’re looking to build a simple business AI application or an AI assistant.

• Learn key concepts for data science, machine learning, and deep learning
• Explore tools like Video AI, AutoML Tables, the Cloud Inference API, the Recommendations AI API, and BigQuery ML
• Perform image recognition using CNNs, transfer learning, and GANs
• Build a simple language processor using embeddings, RNNs, and Bidirectional Encoder
• Representations from Transformers (BERT)
• Use Dialogflow to build a chatbot
• Analyze video with automatic video indexing, face detection, and TF Hub