How Open Access to Artificial Intelligence changes everything - Opinion

These hugely powerful tools, used, developed and backed by the world's most advanced technology companies, are now available to anyone with the skills to use them. Whilst these announcements haven't quite drawn the media attention of an iPhone launch, their significance and reach may be far greater. The point is this: Using these toolkits, individually or combined, anyone can integrate transformational AI or machine learning platforms – which are as sophisticated as anything currently on the market – to their business on a pay as you go or free basis. So what does that mean? It means that any task currently performed by a costly black box AI platform; identifying where to drill for oil, predicting disease outbreaks, optimising scientific experiments to develop new products, predictive maintenance can now be done in-house for the price of a data scientist's salary or consultancy fee, using these open platforms, without losing any control or oversight of your data.