On the importance of democratizing Artificial Intelligence

We all know about the incredible progress that deep learning has made in recent years. The previous technological revolution, the Internet revolution, turned out pretty well. The world that the Internet created has turned out to be open --amazingly open, in fact, a world that empowers individuals like never before. Much like almost anyone today can create a web app, because the tools and technologies underlying the web are easy to use, open-source, completely free, and learning resources are available everywhere with an Internet connection --again, for free.