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Google Cloud AI Services Quick Start Guide

By : Arvind Ravulavaru
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Google Cloud AI Services Quick Start Guide

By: Arvind Ravulavaru

Overview of this book

<p>Cognitive services are the new way of adding intelligence to applications and services. Now we can use Artificial Intelligence as a service that can be consumed by any application or other service, to add smartness and make the end result more practical and useful.</p> <p>Google Cloud AI enables you to consume Artificial Intelligence within your applications, from a REST API.  Text, video and speech analysis are among the powerful machine learning features that can be used. This book is the easiest way to get started with the Google Cloud AI services suite and open up the world of smarter applications.</p> <p>This book will help you build a Smart Exchange, a forum application that will let you upload videos, images and perform text to speech conversions and translation services. You will use the power of Google Cloud AI Services to make our simple forum application smart by validating the images, videos, and text provided by users to Google Cloud AI Services and make sure the content which is uploaded follows the forum standards, without a human curator involvement.</p> <p>You will learn how to work with the Vision API, Video Intelligence API, Speech Recognition API, Cloud Language Process, and Cloud Translation API services to make your application smarter.</p> <p>By the end of this book, you will have a strong understanding of working with Google Cloud AI Services, and be well on the way to building smarter applications.</p>
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Introducing Google Cloud AI Services

Cognition as a Service (CAAS) is the new kid on the block. No longer do engineers need to spend time building intelligence on top of their applications. Now, intelligence is borrowed from various services.

Welcome to Google Cloud AI Services Quick Start Guide, where we are going to explore the powerful Google Cloud AI services via a project-based approach. We are going to build a forum application named SmartExchange, similar to Discourse or Stack Overflow, where users start a discussion thread and other users comment on it.

To manage the content that goes into the SmartExchange application, we are going to use Google Cloud AI services such as Cloud Vision API and Video Intelligence API.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following:

  • What is Google Cloud Platform?
  • Cognition in the cloud
  • What is Google Cloud AI?
  • Overview of Google Cloud AI services