AI Weekly: AI democratization depends on tech giants

A saying often heard from companies like Google and Microsoft is that they want to democratize AI. That's a nice word, democratize -- it's got "democracy" in it -- but it's unclear how these companies define democratization, and, like AI, it has an air of hype to it. Democratization in almost every context means delivering opportunities and benefits to everyone, but what exactly does democratization of AI mean to tech giants currently hoovering up much of the world's AI talent supply? Google chief scientist Fei-Fei Li has talked about it in relation to tensor processing units, and CEO Sundar Pichai in relation to AutoML, machine learning made to create machine learning. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella describes democratization as putting AI in the hands of "every developer, every organization, every public sector organization around the world."