Google Sells A.I. for Building A.I. (Novices Welcome)

Google has been using artificial intelligence to build other artificially intelligent systems for the last several months. Now the company plans to sell this kind of "automated machine learning" technology to other businesses across the globe. On Wednesday, Google introduced a cloud-computing service that it bills as a way to build a so-called computer vision system that suits your particular needs -- even if you have little or no experience with the concepts that drive it. If you are a radiologist, for example, you can use CT scans to automatically train a computer algorithm that identifies signs of lung cancer. If you run a real estate website, you can build an algorithm that distinguishes between living rooms and kitchens, bathrooms and bedrooms.