Whenever it gets radically easier to do higher-level things, it usually takes a while for people to understand the possibilities.

We haven't released our cloud platform yet, but if there are particular domains you are interested in, you can poke around http://reference.wolfram.com/language/ to see what we have there. The examples to do with machine learning seems to be popular on http://www.wolfram.com/language/gallery/.

Then teach me. I have no idea what to expect from Alpha, and I've so far only used it as a novelty item or advanced calculator. You can't expect me to 'naturally' speak a new language if you never reveal its vocabulary or grammar. And I can't learn the language intuitively as long as I can't hear it spoken anywhere either.