Understanding the value of ML and AI for organizations

More and more companies, of all sizes, are in various stages in the journey of discovering how ML and AI can positively impact their business. While initially, only the largest of organizations had the money and expertise to invest in ML projects, over time, the required technology has become more affordable and more accessible to non-specialist developers.

Cloud providers, such as AWS, have played a big part in making ML and AI technology more accessible to a wider group of users. Today, a developer with no previous ML education or experience can use a service such as Amazon Lex to create a customer service chatbot. This chatbot will allow customers to ask questions using natural language, rather than having to select from a menu of preset choices. Not all that long ago, anyone wanting to create a chatbot like this would have needed a Ph.D. in ML!

Many large organizations still look to build up data science teams with...