This document discusses leveraging Google Cloud's AI services. It begins by asking why use Google and cloud services. It then lists the various AI services Google offers, including AI Hub, AI Building Blocks, and AI Platform. It demonstrates using AutoML Vision on the AI Platform. The document notes that while vendor lock-in is a concern, it may not be as big for small businesses. It argues that using AI as a service allows validating prototypes without large investments before deciding to build custom models.

1. Leveraging Google Cloud’s AI
Services

3. Overview
- Why Google?
- Why services?
- Which services are available?
- What about vendor lock-in?

4. Why Google?

5. Because I’m a Google fanboy!

6. Source: https://ai.google

10. The biggest impact of artificial intelligence will
be to help humans make discoveries
we couldn’t make on our own.
David Rotman - MIT Technology Review

11. Ok let’s do AI!

12. Building an AI powered application as an
AI Engineer goes like this:

13. Gather qualitative
data
Analyse data
Choose your
AI tooling
Build & Test your AI
model
Profit €€
AI Engineer approach

14. Ok, doesn’t seem that hard. Let’s do this as a
normal software developer

15. Gather qualitative
data
Analyse data
Choose your
AI tooling
Build & Test your AI
model
Profit €€
Developer approach
Domain knowledge is key!

16. I will always choose a lazy person to do a
difficult job because a lazy person will find an
easy way to do it.
Bill Gates (or so the internet would like us to think)

17. I will always choose a lazy person to do a
difficult job because a lazy person will find an
cloud service to do it.
Matteus Deloge

18. What cloud service will we connect to?
?
API call

19. Evolution of cloud services: developer effort
Infrastructure as a
Service
Platform as a
Service
Software as a
Service
Functions as a
Service

20. Evolution of cloud services: developer effort
Infrastructure as a
Service
Platform as a
Service
Software as a
Service
Functions as a
Service
AI as a Service

21. Evolution of cloud services: developer effort
Infrastructure as a
Service
Platform as a
Service
Software as a
Service
Functions as a
Service
<ANY> Service

22. Functionally identical for a mobile developer
IaaS
PaaS
SaaS
FaaS
AIaaS
...
API Calls = identical

23. Which AI services does Google offer?

24. AI Hub AI Building blocks AI Platform

25. AI Hub

28. AI Building Blocks

36. AI Platform

38. DEMO: AUTO ML

39. The App
Find my dog

40. AutoML Vision Dashboard
Dashboard link

41. The App
Find my dog

42. What about vendor lock-in?

43. Do we avoid vendor lock-in by using AI Services
from Google ?

44. No

45. But vendor lock-in isn’t the main concern of
small innovative businesses ...

46. I am speed ...

47. Build vs. Buy
Knowledge
Time
Resources
Unknowns
Fixed functionality
Pricing
Out of control

48. Getting out of vendor lock-in is still an option
Find my dog
- Validate prototype with end-users
- Evaluate business model
- Success?
A. Keep using the validated service
B. Hire a data scientist and build custom
- Failure?
No harm done
No large investments wasted
Tested (fully) functional prototype

49. Thanks for listening!

50. Matteus Deloge
Software Engineer @ Craftworkz
matteus.deloge@craftworkz.be
https://www.linkedin.com/in/matteus-deloge/