Machine learning 2.0 : Engineering Data Driven AI Products
  ML 2.0: In this paper, we propose a paradigm shift from the current practice
of creating machine learning models - which requires months-long discovery,
exploration and "feasibility report" generation, followed by re-engineering for
deployment - in favor of a rapid, 8-week process of development, understanding,
validation and deployment that can executed by developers or subject matter
experts (non-ML experts) using reusable APIs. This accomplishes what we call a
"minimum viable data-driven model," delivering a ready-to-use machine learning
model for problems that haven't been solved before using machine learning. We
provide provisions for the refinement and adaptation of the "model," with
strict enforcement and adherence to both the scaffolding/abstractions and the
process. We imagine that this will bring forth the second phase in machine
learning, in which discovery is subsumed by more targeted goals of delivery and
impact.
