Automated machine learning
Even though a data scientist has been termed the sexiest job of the 21st century, the reality is that most data scientists spend a disproportionate amount of time on time-consuming tasks such as data preprocessing and hyperparameter tuning. To address this issue, companies such as Google are developing tools to automate the machine learning process. Google has recently launched AutoML, a solution that uses neural nets to design neural nets. Google believes that AutoML can package the expertise that is currently possessed by data scientists and provide that expertise on demand as a service on the cloud.
Of course, some data scientists have taken offense at the thought that they could one day be replaced by AI, and ...
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