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The deep learning boom caught almost everyone by surprise

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251 points slyall | 1 comments | 06 Nov 24 04:05 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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kleiba ◴[06 Nov 24 12:23 UTC] No.42061089[source]▶
> “Pre-ImageNet, people did not believe in data,” Li said in a September interview at the Computer History Museum. “Everyone was working on completely different paradigms in AI with a tiny bit of data.”

That's baloney. The old ML adage "there's no data like more data" is as old as mankind itself.

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kccqzy ◴[06 Nov 24 14:46 UTC] No.42063076[source]▶
Pre-ImageNet was like pre-2010. Doing ML with massive data really wasn't in vogue back then.
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mistrial9 ◴[06 Nov 24 16:06 UTC] No.42064389[source]▶
except in Ivory Towers of Google + Facebook
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1. disgruntledphd2 ◴[06 Nov 24 18:31 UTC] No.42066977{3}[source]▶
Even then maybe Google but probably not Facebook. Ads used ML but there wasn't that much of it in feed. Like, there were a bunch of CV projects that I saw in 2013 that didn't use NNs. Three years later, otoh you couldn't find a devserver without tripping over an NN along the way.