Preface

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 will explore the powerful Google Cloud AI services via a project-based approach. We will 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 administer the content that goes into the SmartExchange application, we will use Google Cloud AI services such as the Cloud Vision API and Video Intelligence API.