Google launches Cloud AutoML to automatically build custom AI models

Google today announced a new cloud service that's designed to make it easier for companies to create custom machine learning algorithms for processing images. Called Cloud AutoML Vision, the system allows developers to upload a bunch of images to Google's cloud and receive a custom model in return. It's based on Google's research into training machine learning models to construct models that perform particular tasks well. In theory, companies should be able to feed the system a set of sample images and, within a day, get back an automatically trained model that's optimized for their specific data. Cloud AutoML, which will eventually expand beyond images, is supposed to help bridge the gap between the companies that need custom machine learning tools and the handful that are able to pay top dollar for the technical talent needed to implement those tools.