When your enterprise sets out to build an artificial intelligence and machine learning team, are you targeting the right people to hire? Or is it possible that you are seeking to reinvent the wheel, or the microwave oven? Many organizations today may indeed be hiring the wrong skills when they look to build out that machine learning team, according to Google Cloud Chief Decision Scientist Cassie Kozyrkov, who provided an overview of applied machine learning at Google and beyond during a keynote address at the Strata Data Conference in New York last week. First, Kozyrkov provided a simple and elegant definition of machine learning as a second way for humans to communicate with computers. The first way is through instructions by coding.