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