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Detailed explanations of state of the art techniques. Huge archives of learning data. Massive amounts of cheaply available computing power. All of these are available to anyone on the internet. Anyone can get involved.

However, not everyone has equal skills, experience, and insight. And as you'd expect, the people with the best of all three are highly credentialed and are being paid highly for their valuable efforts by companies which an afford to do so.

The days of an untrained tinkerer in a back shed contributing to the state of the art are long gone.



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