MACHINE LEARNING AND THE CLOUDAndrew Bogard

WHAT IS MACHINE LEARNING?• “Machine learning is the science of getting computers to act without

being explicitly programmed”• As more data is introduced, computer programs teach themselves to

change and grow

WHOSE USING IT?• Popular companies include: Google, Amazon, Netflix, Facebook• Finance and Investment Banking companies• Gaming companies

• Blizzard, Valve

VIDEO: ADD IN THE CLOUDhttp://www.computerworld.com/article/3048184/cloud-computing/how-machine-learning-will-take-off-in-the-cloud.html- Eric Schmidt on Machine Learning

HOW THE CLOUD IS REVOLUTIONIZING ML

• “As more machine learning services are put in the cloud, enterprises will be able to use the service to make sense of the huge amounts of data they are amassing.”• No longer just “a place to store data”

• ML used to require high levels of intelligence• Microsoft Azure• Googles Cloud Vision API

GOOGLE CLOUD MACHINE LEARNING

• Customizable and fully managed service• TensorFlow graph

• Google Translate and Google Speech API• Google Vision API

• Faces, landmarks, logos, etc.• Wix Company

• More accessible platform to broad aspect of people

DISCUSSION• Do you agree that the Cloud is transforming Machine Learning?• How is this relevant to us as IS developers?

SOURCES• https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning• https://yottamine.com/machine-learning-svm• http://www.computerworld.com/article/3048184/cloud-computing/how-ma

chine-learning-will-take-off-in-the-cloud.html• http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-developers-can-take-advantage-

of-machine-learning-on-google-cloud-platform/