New Version of Clarifai API Actually Offers Developers Bespoke Machine Learning

If 2016 goes down as the year of something in the API economy, it might well be machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI). Although hardly a day goes by where I don't receive another ML or AI anouncement, a deeper dive often reveals some very liberal definitions of the sciences (some involve what sounds like real rocket science, others not really). Additionally, where there is (or could be) ML or AI involved, it's often buried deep in the cogs of the given solution in such a way that the machine learning and/or artificial intelligence themselves are very much out of the reach of users and developers. Instead, AI and ML are too often touted as characteristics that make the final solution better than others at what it does. But every now and then, an announcement comes along that gives the consuming developer direct and approachable access to ML/AI capabilities so that their own organizations, in bespoke fashion, can benefit more directly from the so-called rocket science.