The real reason AI is difficult – Cassie Kozyrkov – Medium

This Christmas, my friend's grandmother finally found out what her grandson had been working on for years. He's a data scientist raised on English with a bit of Spanish that gets dusted off on occasional family occasions. His grandmother speaks only Spanish. The sci-fi-fuelled rumors of what data scientists work on -- especially if we specialize in AI -- attract a whiff of the ridiculous, so many of us find ourselves constantly having to explain our life choices. That's why I was very touched when I learned that my friend shared a Spanish translation of my blog posts (La explicación más simple de Machine Learning que jamás habrás leido and ¿Qué diablos es Ciencia de Datos?) with his family while visiting them for the holidays, and his grandmother was finally able to tell him she understood him and was proud of him.