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Machine and deep learning tools are reaching higher levels of abstraction all the time. Libraries like fast-ai make them accessible to anyone with a basic understanding of Python.

I don't think the advent of the 'Citizen Data Scientist' is even about automation. It's about providing an interface that allows application/experimentation without a deep understanding of the underlying statistics and architectures.

I think it's totally reasonably to expect that, within the next couple of years, there will be state of the art deep learning techniques that don't require any more technical expertise to apply than operating a smart phone.