Mark Twain apparently said the following: “Data is like garbage, You’d better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.” Of course he was quite wrong. What he meant to say was “Data are like garbage …” and so on – very amusing. But his wrongness goes beyond pedantry. I
I recently watched a lecture by Dr Andrew Glassner on the subject of Deep Learning, and he highlighted something that I am not sure that businesses or governments really understand. He pointed out that thanks to a number of highly intelligent and committed engineers and data scientists, the tools and techniques of artificial intelligence are
Think about a car. A car has these functions: It moves the driver around, it moves passengers around, it moves things around. It can also carry things. It can carry clean things like books and files and food, and dirty things like potting soil and fertilizer. A car can also tow things. A car can
