Chapter 20. AI Cloud Services for the Real World

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

—Isaac Asimov, I, Robot, 1950

Today cloud platforms offer a number of stunning AI-oriented services for rather advanced scenarios such as computer vision and speech analysis. These services, however, taken singularly, are only (rather sophisticated) tools for building end-to-end solutions. The cost of the end-to-end solution is on top of the services, although the services can unleash the building of rather futuristic and imaginative scenarios.

Machine learning enables two main families of end-to-end solutions. One consists of developing a machine learning solution from ...

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