Google Cloud Platform in Action

Chapter 18. Cloud Machine Learning Engine: managed machine learning

This chapter covers

• What is machine learning?
• What are neural networks?
• What is TensorFlow?
• What is Cloud ML Engine?
• Creating and deploying your own ML model

Although we’ve explored various machine-learning APIs, so far we’ve focused only on the real-world applications and not on how they work under the hood. In this chapter, we’re going to look inside and move beyond these preprogrammed ML problems.

18.1. What is machine learning?

Before we go any further, it’s important to note that machine learning and artificial intelligence are enormous topics with quite a lot of ongoing research, and this chapter is in no way comprehensive to the topic. Although I’ll try to cover ...