Amy Unruh and Sara Robinson join the podcast this week to talk with Mark and Melanie about the alpha launch of Cloud AutoML Vision.

Cloud AutoML is a suite of products enabling developers with limited ML expertise to build high quality models using transfer learning and Neural Architecture Search techniques. AutoML Vision is the first product out the gate with a focus on making it easy to train customized vision models.

About Amy Unruh

Amy is a developer relations engineer for the Google Cloud Platform, where she focuses on machine learning and data analytics as well as other Cloud Platform technologies. Amy has an academic background in CS/AI and has also worked at several startups, done industrial R&D, and published a book on App Engine.

About Sara Robinson

Sara is a developer relations engineer on Google’s Cloud Platform team, focusing on big data and machine learning. She worked on providing initial product feedback and building a demo for the AutoML Vision launch.

Cool things of the week

• Google Brain Looking Back on 2017 blog
  • Shout-out to Kaz Sato for his TensorFlow Rock Paper Scissors example
• Running dedicated game servers in Kubernetes Engine blog
• Kaggle Learn site

Honorable mention… - Scientists put a worm brain in a lego robot blog

Interview

• Cloud AutoML: Making AI accessible to every business blog
• Cloud AutoML Vision site
• Cloud AutoML Vision Access Request | Whitelist Application form
• Cloud images example video
  • Shout-out thanks to Rob Carver for domain expertise in helping label cloud images.
• Coastline images example readme and filenames csv
• Using Machine Learning to Explore Neural Network Architecture blog
• Learning Transferable Architecture for Scalable Image Recognition arXiv paper
• Neural Architecture Search with Reinforcement Learning arXiv paper
• Progressive Neural Architecture Search arXiv paper
• Learning2learn video
• Cloud Vision site docs

Question of the week

How does someone in academia get GCP credits?

• Google Cloud Platform Education Grants site

Where can you find us next?

Melanie is speaking at AI Congress in London Jan 30th and she will be at FOSDEM in Brussels in Feb.

Mark will be at the Game Developer’s Conference | GDC in March.