Putting Machine Learning to Work

As we have already mentioned, machine learning (ML) is one of the differentiators of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You should pay special attention to this chapter, as you will be learning that you don't actually need to be a data scientist to leverage ML in your applications. Google has options for both beginners and highly experienced consumers. ML can be quite an intimidating topic for many people but, hopefully, we will be able to explain the basic underlying concepts by means of easy examples. Having that understanding, we will then be able to look at the ML services that we can use in GCP. Hopefully, you are as excited about this chapter as we were when writing it.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• An introduction to AI and ML
• The seven steps of ML
• Learning models
• GCP ML options
• TensorFlow
• Cloud ML Engine
• Pretrained...