Well the article builds around a very superficial view of ML.
If you want to do simple recommendation systems or spam filters than O.k. Those are solved problems, hence commoditized.
If you want to build novel things, you really need academic-grade ML.
If you want another argument, I came from working in VC and startups, and they think they understand ML. Boy, they really don't. They are like kids pretending to play a guitar that can't strike a single chord right.
If you want to do simple recommendation systems or spam filters than O.k. Those are solved problems, hence commoditized.
If you want to build novel things, you really need academic-grade ML.
If you want another argument, I came from working in VC and startups, and they think they understand ML. Boy, they really don't. They are like kids pretending to play a guitar that can't strike a single chord right.