Google expands its artificial intelligence services to non-experts

"Developing a custom model often requires rare expertise and extensive resources," said Fei-Fei Li, Google Cloud AI's chief scientist. So her team developed a drag-and-drop interface. Users can just upload labeled photos of the items they want to be recognize. Jia Li, Cloud AI's head of R&D, says that a model can be created in a day with just a few examples of each item it needs to recognize. "The smallest quantity we've tried so far is like tens of images," she says.