Sure it's exciting stuff for those handful of researchers who currently work on projects like AutoML.
On the other hand, I feel sad for myself because me and many others left so far behind. I have strong feeling that such technologies would lead to concentration of power of such mega-corporations like Alphabet as well as complete monopoly for any creative work. So very few of us who managed to become cutting-edge researchers would be proud to be creative humans, others will do just a monkey job using magical APIs.
In 80s, two people could create state-of-the-art game written in assembly with it's own tiny game AI (hello to Elite [1] which has intelligent opponents who engage in their own private battles and police who take an active interest in protecting the law).
In 90s, a small team could create state-of-the-art game written in pure C with some cool AI (hello to Quake III Arena [2] which has pretty strong bots [3]).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake_III_Arena
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/240430519_The_Quake...
In both of these cases, you don't have to be genius to be able to understand whole thing alone.
I'm 33 and I progress very, very slowly. I feel I might be on the level close enough to understand Q3A entire source code. I think I would have great future if today is 1994. Unfortunately for me today is 2017 and I do realize that I don't have any exciting future at all.
On the other hand, I feel sad for myself because me and many others left so far behind. I have strong feeling that such technologies would lead to concentration of power of such mega-corporations like Alphabet as well as complete monopoly for any creative work. So very few of us who managed to become cutting-edge researchers would be proud to be creative humans, others will do just a monkey job using magical APIs.
In 80s, two people could create state-of-the-art game written in assembly with it's own tiny game AI (hello to Elite [1] which has intelligent opponents who engage in their own private battles and police who take an active interest in protecting the law).
In 90s, a small team could create state-of-the-art game written in pure C with some cool AI (hello to Quake III Arena [2] which has pretty strong bots [3]).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake_III_Arena
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/240430519_The_Quake...
In both of these cases, you don't have to be genius to be able to understand whole thing alone.
I'm 33 and I progress very, very slowly. I feel I might be on the level close enough to understand Q3A entire source code. I think I would have great future if today is 1994. Unfortunately for me today is 2017 and I do realize that I don't have any exciting future at all.