Google Cloud Machine Learning Engine: The smart person's guide

Major strides in artificial intelligence (AI)--especially in the subset of machine learning--have exceeded expectations in the past few years. In January 2016, for instance, Google's DeepMind created AlphaGo, which beat the ancient Chinese game Go 10 years before experts predicted it would. These major achievements have spurred businesses to take advantage of machine learning tools for the enterprise that can support their use of data. Instead of relying on programming, machine learning algorithms can "teach" computer systems to identify patterns and make predictions based on massive data sets. In September 2016, Google officially dubbed its cloud technologies for the enterprise Google Cloud, and offered a host of new cloud technologies and machine learning tools as part of the package.