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19Jul/17Off

AI AND ‘ENORMOUS DATA’ COULD MAKE TECH GIANTS HARDER TO TOPPLE

The ecosystem of tech companies that consumers and the economy increasingly depend on is traditionally said to be kept innovative and un-monopolistic by disruption, the process whereby smaller companies upend larger ones. But when competition in tech depends on machine learning systems powered by huge stockpiles of data, slaying a tech giant may be harder than ever.

The project was designed to test whether it’s possible to get more accurate image recognition not by tweaking the design of existing algorithms but just by feeding them much, much more data.

The answer was yes.

Data hoarding is already well established as a defensive strategy among AI-centric companies. Google, Microsoft and others have open-sourced lots of software, and even hardware designs, but are less free with the kind data that makes such tools useful.

Rachel Thomas, cofounder of Fast.ai, which works to make machine learning more accessible, says startups can find places to get rich applying machine learning outside the usual purview of internet giants, such as agriculture.

See the full story here: https://www.wired.com/story/ai-and-enormous-data-could-make-tech-giants-harder-to-topple/

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