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