Microsoft AI Public Preview of Machine Learning App

[engine]

Microsoft has a public preview of an AI app called Lobe which allows machine learning model training. It currently uses just image classification, but is an interesting app for Windows and mac.

Microsoft says early customers have used Lobe to build apps that identify harmful plants, detect beehive invaders such as wasps, or send people alerts when they’ve accidentally left their garage door open.

[thenextweb.com...]

[ronin]

without writing any code

I am so bored of this appeal.

I can't think of any media-production process outside software which treats people as so challenged and limited.

- Write a novel, without using a pen, a keyboard or needing to learn spelling and punctuation
- Film a short, without bothering to point a camera or learning any camera techniques like pan, tilt, zoom
- Write an orchestral symphony, without knowing anything about instruments, timing, scales or harmonies

I'm sure a GUI could enable a media-creator to put together a novel, a short film or a symphony... but surely there is something to be learned - some insight to be gleaned - about the medium by learning the conventional building blocks from which it is created?

Or am I being unrealistically sentimental?