Google aims to expand its AI education to other industries
Online tutorials, other tools are intended to train staff in health and other industries, says Sundar Pichai.
(Bloomberg)—As Google’s boss, Sundar Pichai has put artificial intelligence at the center of almost everything the internet giant does these days. Now, he wants other companies to catch up.
Alphabet’s Google is starting what it calls an “AI crash course” of free online tutorials, scripted by its staff, on how to write software that trains computers to translate text, sort images and understand videos. The courses are designed for software coders new to machine learning, one of the most useful types of AI.
“Part of what holds back machine learning is that it’s just really difficult to do. Very few people can do it,” Pichai said in describing his first two years as Google’s chief executive officer.
AI should contribute $14 trillion across 16 industries in 12 developed countries by 2035, according to Accenture and Wells Fargo Securities. That’s a much bigger opportunity for Google than advertising, its current main market. Google benefits if other companies use its AI tools and guidelines because they’ll be more likely to pay to run their new programs on Google’s cloud-computing service.
About a year ago, the company started a machine learning boot camp for its staff, putting 10,000 employees through the exercises. For others, Google will offer 15 hours of coding lessons and instructional videos from some marquee names in the field, like research director Peter Norvig. Google has tested the course with some universities, but hopes to train staff at large corporations in health, finance and other sectors. The program will begin in coming months.
The course offering includes tutorials on TensorFlow, a library of Google’s AI building blocks. The company said TensorFlow has been downloaded more than 7.9 million times since it was launch edin late 2015, the first time it has disclosed the metric. TensorFlow is already more popular with developers than competing offerings from Microsoft and Amazon. TensorFlow’s spread, however, has become a concern to rival companies and researchers.
Google is also opening up a trove of YouTube footage to outside researchers to help create new ways to automatically analyze videos with algorithms. Video is “the next frontier for computer vision,” said Jeff Dean, a top Google AI researcher.
Alphabet’s Google is starting what it calls an “AI crash course” of free online tutorials, scripted by its staff, on how to write software that trains computers to translate text, sort images and understand videos. The courses are designed for software coders new to machine learning, one of the most useful types of AI.
“Part of what holds back machine learning is that it’s just really difficult to do. Very few people can do it,” Pichai said in describing his first two years as Google’s chief executive officer.
AI should contribute $14 trillion across 16 industries in 12 developed countries by 2035, according to Accenture and Wells Fargo Securities. That’s a much bigger opportunity for Google than advertising, its current main market. Google benefits if other companies use its AI tools and guidelines because they’ll be more likely to pay to run their new programs on Google’s cloud-computing service.About a year ago, the company started a machine learning boot camp for its staff, putting 10,000 employees through the exercises. For others, Google will offer 15 hours of coding lessons and instructional videos from some marquee names in the field, like research director Peter Norvig. Google has tested the course with some universities, but hopes to train staff at large corporations in health, finance and other sectors. The program will begin in coming months.
The course offering includes tutorials on TensorFlow, a library of Google’s AI building blocks. The company said TensorFlow has been downloaded more than 7.9 million times since it was launch edin late 2015, the first time it has disclosed the metric. TensorFlow is already more popular with developers than competing offerings from Microsoft and Amazon. TensorFlow’s spread, however, has become a concern to rival companies and researchers.
Google is also opening up a trove of YouTube footage to outside researchers to help create new ways to automatically analyze videos with algorithms. Video is “the next frontier for computer vision,” said Jeff Dean, a top Google AI researcher.
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