Google announces private beta of new Cloud Machine Learning service

In an announcement made on Wednesday at its GCP Next conference in San Francisco, tech giant Google said that it is rolling out the private beta of a new Cloud Machine Learning service which will enable businesses to create a custom machine learning model for predicting the future of their ventures. According to the details shared by Google, the Cloud Machine Learning service has the capability to handle data ingestion and training, and subsequently make use of the resultant machine-learning model to make predictions for a business' future. Google said that for building a custom machine learning model that can make future predictions for the future of a business, users of the Cloud Machine Learning service need to work with data which they have stored in Google's other cloud services. In a demonstration of the creation of a custom machine learning model for predicting the future of a business, Jeff Dean -- the chief of Google's Brain deep-learning research project -- showed how the Cloud Machine Learning service could build a model which predicts a click by a consumer on an advertisement. The model demonstrated by Dean, to show how the Cloud Machine Learning service works, was based on marketing software firm Criteo's anonymized data pertaining to consumers' chances of clicking on an advertisement.