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Big Data and its Impact on AI BY DR KEITH DARLINGTON
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” - Charles Darwin
Adaptability is a key factor in AI systems today and Big Data is helping to make that possible. It has been said that Big Data is to AI what oil is to the automobile – data is the new oil. Big Data has been the catalyst for the success of the current generation of AI systems because it has spawned a swathe of AI applications that use pattern recognition – hitherto thought to be very difficult to implement. The term Big Data was coined to refer to the growing volume of data collected via the Internet and Web applications. With the rise of social networking and online retailing, copious amounts of data are now available daily. When combined with deep learning AI algorithms, this data can provide valuable insights and add value to businesses. Correlations can be identified from patterns in the Applications, which were previously thought unsolvable such as pattern recognition tasks are now commonplace. Examples include applications like Google’s language translator and Amazon’s Alexa. In this article, I look at how the use of Big Data has transformed AI.
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