At first the cloud allowed us to move our on-premises work to a highly scale-able, highly secure, professionally maintained data center without bug up-front costs, but now it offers so much more. Machine Learning and AI are becoming part of most new applications as well as value adds to legacy apps. Enabled by the cloud, they offer so much value to not just cool new applications, but also traditional line of business applications that you can't afford to not know how to use them. Plus, it's not that hard!