I don’t want to see people excluded from being architects of better lives for themselves with AI just because they can’t read English or they didn’t study math in college.The good news is that the tools are getting better quickly.(3) Testing an important application takes expertise..As a statistician, I probably rage about testing even in my sleep —being grumpy about lack of rigor is a deeply-ingrained instinct with my kind — so I have to remind myself that there are many applications where failure isn’t painful.Sometimes failures are so funny they’re actually the best part — for example in this AI-generated recipe for Grilled Snailsed Butter, courtesy of aiweirdness.com..I challenge you to read it out loud without cracking up.An AI-generated recipe, courtesy of aiweirdness.com..I dare you to read it out loud without cracking up.Such applications don’t need testing rigor of the stratospheric standards that would make my fellow curmudgeons proud..There’s a difference between creating a lifesaving medication and creating a new butter recipe for my domestic amusement..I’ll join a protest this instant if we decide medication no longer needs statistical testing..As for the can’t-believe-it’s-butter… I do crazy stuff in my kitchen all the time where the only thing approximating a test is the fire alarm..(It sings me the song of its people often.)In my talks and articles, I’m often championing industry use cases, but let’s not forget all the individual cute applications that bring a bit of personal joy or comfort..I have plenty of custom-hacked personal ML-based productivity tools that let me get away with acting like my day has 25 hours in it..These aren’t capital-I-Important but they make my little life a little better.I’d love for everyone else to have access to these technologies — which is why I’m proud of be part of Google Cloud… making better tools and putting vast computing resources in the hands of all the people who don’t want to build their own datacenter is basically what we exist for..Unfortunately, people still end up excluded if they don’t know what AI is and that they’re allowed to join the fun without becoming a professor first..All that sci-fi nonsense about robots really doesn’t help matters.I don’t want to see people excluded from being architects of better lives for themselves just because they can’t read English or they didn’t study math in college.Everyone should be participating in the ideas of AI, and that’s what motivates me to write.. More details