One sad, but possible, future is that it's not difficult to learn machine learning techniques, but to actually achieve anything with it you need hundreds of mil

One sad, but possible, future is that it's not difficult to learn machine learning techniques, but to actually achieve anything with it you need hundreds of millions of dollars to spend on training and compute. An existential double whammy; going back and forth between feeling you're smart enough to compete, if only you had the capital, and that the computers are smarter and better at everything.