Sure, but is this not the same as buying a hammer/fertilizer/metal press and using it for your own means? That's a quasi-instantaneous acquisition of the result of hundreds of thousands of years of innovation.
The hammer, fertilizer and the metal press are all part of our tool-making culture, ways to adopt nature to do our bidding and in the case of the hammer and the metal press to shape it by brute force. In contrast, something like TensorFlow is a tool of the mind which means you can encode it as bits and those will travel the world a lot faster than your average bulk goods or container ship every will.
So they are comparable at some level and totally incomparable at others.