AI Within Reach: AutoML Platforms for the Enterprise

The world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is at a crossroads between potential and accessibility. AI is powerful, and far more actionable than it has been in the multiple decades since it emerged as a discipline, and yet, the amount of trial and error, hunch, and bespoke effort involved in doing rigorous AI work is still significant. Of course, this is the case with many new technologies as they cross the chasm between what they can do theoretically and what they are able to do practically and efficiently. The game changer in this apparent quagmire is automated machine learning (increasingly known simply as AutoML). AutoML is busting the monopoly that highly-trained data scientists have over profitable and advantageous use of AI, because it enables non-specialists to work through the bits of AI that were previously off-limits.