Ruiz: Democratizing artificial intelligence and deep learning

Years ago, when I was taking my first steps in computer programming, coding was for geeks and computer programs had limited use. Development tools were very crude, writing code was hard (remember Assembly, C, Pascal?), compiling and linking was a nightmare (MAKE files anyone?), and debugging was even worse. Long story short, programming was not for the faint of heart. You needed nerves of steel and had to patiently fail over and over before you got the hang of writing good code. But as software gradually rose in prominence, the entry barrier to programming lowered.