The Google "Crash Course on Machine Learning" and why YOU should do it

"While there have been advances in artificial intelligence (AI) this year, it's poised to skyrocket in 2019.." So a dozen articles a week begin. But what does this mean to me? I basically understand that "General AI" or computers that can comprehend a wide range of topics and interests, just like people do, is still a long way off However, Machine Learning is here right now. Teaching a model with real-world data and then predicting events using statistics is viable. I don't pretend to understand the ins and outs of the complex mathematics that underpin machine learning.