by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Someone please give me a magic wand so that I won’t have to talk to those ogres.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I currently work in what some people call “data science” and others call “artificial intelligence and machine learning.” Each day I read something about the “democratization of data science” and the “democratization of artificial intelligence or machine learning or both or all or something.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Whew. “Democratization” is actually a word in some dictionaries. Other dictionaries wrinkle their nose at the appending of appendages onto “democracy.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n What these “democratizations” mean is that everyone else will be able to do a technology without having to be a specialist with advanced degrees or certifications or something else that everyone else doesn’t have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have heard of these things for over 40 years. “This new tool will allow you to program a computer without programming a computer!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n What that really means is, “This new tool will allow you to do things without having to talk to those people who have knowledge that you don’t have.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n We could have the democratization of medicine, plumbing, construction (wouldn’t you go into a high-rise building built by people who know nothing about construction?), and everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One solution is to teach the specialists how to be nice to the non-specialists. You know, transform those ogres into handsome princes or something. I guess making a new tool that replaces the ogre is easier than make the ogre nice. We shall see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips Someone please give me a magic wand so that I won’t have to talk to those ogres. I currently work in what some people call “data science” and others call “artificial intelligence and machine learning.” Each day I read something about the “democratization of data science” and the “democratization of artificial intelligence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3,292],"tags":[133,126,295],"class_list":["post-3156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","category-technology","category-tools","tag-people","tag-technology","tag-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3171,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156\/revisions\/3171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}