Machine learning hasn't been commoditized yet, but that doesn't mean you need a PhD · fast.ai

Please email your data science related quandaries to rachel@fast.ai. Note that questions are edited for clarity and brevity. In the last week I received two questions with diametrically opposed premises: one was excited that machine learning is now automated, the other was concerned that machine learning takes too many years of study. Q1: I heard that Google Cloud announced that entrepreneurs can easily and quickly build on top of ML/NLP APIs. Is this statement true: "The future of ML and data post Google Cloud - the future is here, NLP and speech advancements have been figured out by Google and are accessible by API. The secret sauce has been commoditized so you can build your secret sauce on top of it. The time to secret sauce is getting shorter to shorter"?