From Amazon's product recommendations to Pandora's ability to find us new songs we like, the smartest Web services around rely on machine learning--algorithms that enable software to learn how to respond with a degree of intelligence to new information or events.
Now Google has launched a service that could bring such smarts to many more apps. Google Prediction API
provides a simple way for developers to create software that learns how
to handle incoming data. For example, the Google-hosted algorithms
could be trained to sort e-mails into categories for "complaints" and
"praise" using a dataset that provides many examples of both kinds.
Future e-mails could then be screened by software using that API, and
handled accordingly.
To read the full, original article click on this link: Technology Review: Google Offers Cloud-Based Learning Engine
Author: Tom Simonite
