A critique of the idea that AI progress is only about data, exploring the role of algorithms and human creativity alongside new datasets.
The claim that there are no new ideas in AI, only new datasets, is both provocative and partly true. As Jack Morris argued in his recent post, many of the most important AI milestones have been driven not by theoretical leaps, but by new sources of data. He puts it succinctly: “The breakthroughs weren’t big ideas; they were new ways to learn from new kinds of data.” from blog.jxmo.io That framing resonates with history. The...
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