1. Good talk, but Sara didn’t mention high schoolers who are extremely successful at machine learning competitions like kaggle, pertinently high schoolers that didn’t have 4 years of prior studies.

2. The whole point of machine learning libraries, is to as Sara mentions, democratize Ai, but also actually enabling non-arbitrary power to solve real world problems, without years of expertise.

3. Microsoft for example comprises of 50 million lines of code, and in the past only experts could really use an Os. Now a child can easily use Os’s without writing millions of lines of special low level code. Machine learning is in a similar situation today, and this does not discount the hard work of PhD scientists, but rather highlights their work. The machine learning libraries are often the work of many PhD or Masters man hours.

Conclusion

I bet Sara wouldn’t say that when a child uses Windows 10, his/her action “discounts” the work of Paul Allen and Bill Gates. Windows 10’s difficult code is now abstracted away, and rather than discount, using windows 10 actually highlights the hard work already placed into creating the technology.