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The deep learning boom caught almost everyone by surprise

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306 points slyall | 1 comments | 06 Nov 24 04:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | 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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1. cubefox ◴[20 Nov 24 00:07 UTC] No.42189460[source]▶
> That's baloney. The old ML adage "there's no data like more data" is as old as mankind itself.

The earliest paper I know which says this explicitly is "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data" from 2009, only two years before AlexNet:

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

It's about machine translation.