So Laurence gave us a very nice introduction

to what is machine learning and a glimpse

of some of the applications that are

possible with machine learning.

So at Google, we saw the enormous potential

that machine learning was beginning

to have all around us, and that led us

to releasing TensorFlow as an open source platform

back in 2015, and the objective of doing

that was to give everyone access to this open source library,

to develop machine learning solutions,

and thereby, our aim was to accelerate

the progress and pace of the development of machine

learning.

So since that time, TensorFlow has

become enormously successful.

In about these three years, it has

grown to become the number 1 repository on GitHub

for machine learning, and we are very

proud to have been named as the most loved software library

or framework in the 2018 Stack Overflow Developer Survey.

So all of this success, actually, in large part

is due to the very enormous group of users and developers

that we have out there who are using TensorFlow and building

lot of these interesting applications.

We are blown away by these download numbers.

Used more than 17.5 million times.

The number that we are very proud of

is the more than 1,600 contributors,

and vast majority of them being non-Google contributors.

And you see very active engagement by the TensorFlow

Engineering team with the community in answering issues

and fielding pull requests and so on.

So it's a very tiring--

an active ecosystem that TensorFlow

has generated around it.

If you look at where our users come from,

they come from all parts of the globe.

So these are self-identified locations from our users

on GitHub who have started TensorFlow,

and you'll see that they come from every time zone

on the Earth--

down in the south, right up to Antarctica,

and right up in the Arctic Circle in Norway.

And I think I see a dot there in Ireland as well, which

might be Laurence, yeah.

So it's used everywhere for a wide variety of things.

So let me switch gears and talk a little bit

about the architecture of TensorFlow-- what

it is, what it lets you do.

So I'll talk briefly about the APIs that it has,

and then describe the platforms and the languages

that it supports, and then take a quick look

at some of the tooling that really makes it

as a very useful platform for doing machine

learning and letting you do a very versatile set of things.

So to look at the API for TensorFlow,

fundamentally it's a computation execution engine.

And by that, what we mean is that you called your machine

learning algorithm-- or your steps,

as Laurence was showing in that example--

and then TensorFlow automates all the mechanics

of the training process and of running it

on your device of interest, and lets you build that model

and then use it in practical applications.

So you do this by using these higher-level APIs

as an easy way to get started, and we

have two paths of doing this.

Some of you might be familiar with Keras

as a library for developing machine learning models,

and TensorFlow has full tight integration with Keras,

and in fact, Keras is the preferred high-level way

of building machine learning models

using these LEGO bricks, which let you piece together models

one layer at a time and build pretty complex architectures.

So you can use the Keras library.

In addition, we also package some of these very commonly

used models by what we call estimators,

and these packaged models are battle tested and hardened,

and they let you do your job quickly

based on architectures that have already proven to be valuable.

And there's also a lot of flexibility

in customizing things and changing things

and wiring them anyway you need to for your application.

So these APIs for model building are fed by data,

and part of what TensorFlow offers

is very flexible libraries for building these data pipelines--

for bringing in data into your models,

and then doing some of the feature transformation

or pre-processing to prepare the data so

that it's ready to be ingested by a machine learning model.

And then once you have all this set up,

then we have this distribution layer,

which basically deals with abstracting away your model

and distributing your training job to run

on a CPU or single GPU or multiple GPUs,

or even on custom architectures such as TPUs,

which we'll talk a little bit more about as we go forward.

So having trained your model, then, you

save your model as an object.

And this object basically captures

the architecture of the model, as well as

the rates and the tuning of the knobs

that you did during your training phase,

and now it's ready for use in your application.

And that's where you, again, have

a very flexible choice of how to use that trained model.

You can use a library such as tf.serving to manage

the whole process of serving.

You can deploy it on mobile devices or using TensorFlow.js.

You can deploy it in the browser.

And we'll talk more about all of these later today,

as well as the dedicated talks on each

of these components, where you can learn more about them.

So on the platform side, as I was saying earlier,

TensorFlow lets you run your machine learning models

on CPUs, GPUs, as well as on these custom

hardwares such as TPUs, as well as on the mobile devices,

be it Android or iOS framework, and then

going forward on lots of these embedded IoT type devices.

So talking a little bit more about the platforms,

one platform that we're particularly excited about

is Cloud TPUs.

So Cloud TPUs were announced by Google actually last year,

and then this version 2 of the Cloud TPUs

was made general availability earlier this year.

And these are specially-designed pieces

of hardware from the ground-up which

are really, really optimized for machine

learning type of workloads.

So they're blazingly fast for that.

Some of the specs are they're extremely high performance

in terms of compute, as well as a large amount

of very high bandwidth memory, which

lets you parallelize your training job

and take full advantage of this kind of an architecture.

And the nice thing is that TensorFlow is the programming

environment for Cloud TPUs, so TensorFlow is very tightly

coupled with being able to do this seamlessly and easily.

So let's see what's possible wirh these types of devices.

Here I'm showing you some numbers

from training, what's called the ResNet-50 model.

So ResNet-50 is one of the most commonly used models

for image classification.

It's a very complex deep learning

model which has 50 layers.

Has been named ResNet-50.

And it has more than 20 million tunable parameters,

which you have to optimize during the course of training.

So this turns out to be a very commonly used benchmark

to look at performance of machine

learning tools and models to compare how well the system is

optimized.

So we train the ResNet-50 model on a public data set

called ImageNet, which is a data set of tens of millions

of images that are labeled for object recognition

type of tasks.

And this model could be trained on Cloud TPUs for a total cost

of less than $40 with an extremely high image throughput

rate, which is mentioned there.

And that lets you take the entire ImageNet data set

and train your model, in a matter

of tens of minutes, what used to take hours, if not days,

a few months or years ago.

So really exciting to see the pace of this development

to do machine learning at scale.

On the other end of the spectrum,

we see enormous growth in the capabilities

of these small minicomputer devices

that we carry around in our pockets.

Smartphones, smart connected devices, IoT devices--

these are exploding.

And I think by some counts, their estimates

are that there will be about 30 billion such devices

within the next five years.

And there are a lot of machine learning applications

that are possible on these types of devices.

So we have made it a priority to make sure that TensorFlow

runs-- and runs well--

on these types of devices by releasing

a library called TensorFlow Lite.

So TensorFlow Lite is a lightweight version

of TensorFlow, and this is how the workflow works.

You take a TensorFlow model, and you train it offline--

let's say on a workstation or in distributed computing.

And you create your saved model.

That saved model then goes through a converter process

where we convert it into a model that's specifically

optimized for mobile devices.

We call it the TensorFlow Lite format.

So this TensorFlow Lite model can now

be installed on a mobile device where we also

have a runtime for TensorFlow, which is a TensorFlow Lite

interpreter.

So it takes this model, and it runs it.

It binds to the local hardware acceleration-- custom hardware

acceleration-- on that device-- for example, on Android.

You have the NNAPI interface-- the Neural Network interface--

which takes advantage of whatever might be the hardware

configuration, and this gives you a model that's lightweight.

It uses less memory, less power consumption,

and is fast for user mobile devices.

So here's an example of how this might look in practice.

What you're seeing here is a image classification example

running on a mobile phone, and we are holding common office

objects in front of it, and it's classifying them in real time--

scissors and Post-its, and obviously, a TensorFlow logo.

So it's very easy to build these types of models

and get these applications up-and-running very quickly,

and there are examples and tutorials

on our YouTube channel to show you how to do this.

So in addition to the flexibility on the platform

side, TensorFlow also gives you a lot of flexibility

in programming languages that you can use to call it in.

So we've always had a large collection of languages

that have been supported.

Python continues to be the mainstay of machine learning,

and lot of work being done in that area.

But you can see many more languages,

and most of these, actually, have been developed

through community support.

Two languages we are particularly excited about,

which we launched earlier this year--

one is support for Swift.

So Swift gives some unique advantages

by combining the benefits of a very intuitive, imperative

programming style with the benefits of a compiled language

so you get all the performance optimizations

that graphs typically bring you, and so you

can have best of both worlds.

Another language that's extremely exciting

is bringing machine learning to JavaScript.

There's a huge JavaScript and web developer community

out there, and we believe that by using TensorFlow.js, which

is the JavaScript version of TensorFlow,

it lets JavaScript developers easily

jump into machine learning and develop models

in the browser using JavaScript, or run it

with a node server backend.

So we're beginning to see some really cool applications

of this, and I'll show you two examples of that here.

So this is a tool which you can try out yourself on that site