Ilir, greetings!

Thank you for a prompt response. Unfortunately, none of the suggested solutions works. I checked with Genie:
"The error occurs because databricks-automl is not available for Databricks Runtime 17.0.x. Databricks AutoML is not supported on this runtime version. You cannot install or use databricks-automl on 17.0.x clusters."

It seems correct, as I got AutoML working as expected once I switched to the 16.4 ML runtime.

Thank you

Stas