A friend of mine asked me this question: is there really a market for a premium ML as a service, hundreds of data scientist thinking about features and ever more clever algorithms? Or big data will take over even our jobs since more data eventually trumps clever algorithms?

The short answer: there are elements of what we do which are AI complete. Eventually, Artificial General Intelligence will eliminate the data scientist, but it’s not around the corner.

Still, I found it a very good question. Here are some loosely connected thoughts to elaborate on my short answer.