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Re:Artificial Intelligence Software Is Booming, But Why Now? by blazespin on Monday September 19, 2016 @03:28AM (#12529591)
Just as important is global data available to train the AI. According to this we're at 10+ Zetabytes versus < 0.1 in 2005.

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Re:Artificial Intelligence Software Is Booming, But Why Now? by imglorp on Monday September 19, 2016 @07:57AM (#12530634)
This should not be overlooked.

From 1960 to 2000, AI was "brute force" goal and optimization problems. Having mountains of data for anything you want turns it into a "dumb but accurate" pattern matching problem.

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