Practical AI on the Google Cloud Platform

by Micheal Lanham

Working with AI is complicated and expensive for many developers. That's why 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. With this book, you'll learn how to use Google's AI-powered cloud services to do everything from creating a chatbot to analyzing text, images, and video.

Author Micheal Lanham demonstrates methods for building and training models step-by-step and shows you how to expand your models to accomplish increasingly complex tasks. If you have a good grasp of math and the Python language, you'll quickly get up to speed with Google Cloud Platform, whether you want to build an AI assistant or a simple business AI application.


Learn key concepts for data science, machine learning, and deep learning
Explore tools like Video AI and AutoML Tables
Build a simple language processor using deep learning systems
Perform image recognition using CNNs, transfer learning, and GANs
Use Google's Dialogflow to create chatbots and conversational AI
Analyze video with automatic video indexing, face detection, and TensorFlow Hub
Build a complete working AI agent application

394 pages, ebook

Published October 20, 2020