What do machine learning practitioners actually do? · fast.ai

What do machine learning practitioners actually do? Written: 12 Jul 2018 by Rachel Thomas This post is part 1 of a series. Part 2 will explain AutoML and neural architecture search, and Part 3 will look at Google's AutoML in particular. There are frequent media headlines about both the scarcity of machine learning talent (see here, here, and here) and about the promises of companies claiming their products automate machine learning and eliminate the need for ML expertise altogether (see here, here, and here). In his keynote at the TensorFlow DevSummit, Google's head of AI Jeff Dean estimated that there are tens of millions of organizations that have electronic data that could be used for machine learning but lack the necessary expertise and skills.