Please Don't Say "It used to be called big data and now it's called deep learning"

At the Financial Times-Nikkei conference on The Future of AI, Robots, and Us a few weeks ago, Andreessen Horowitz partner Chris Dixon spoke just before Jeremy Howard and I were on stage. Dixon said many totally reasonable things in his talk–but it’s no fun to comment on them, so I’m going to focus on something rather unreasonable that he said, which was: “A few years ago it was called big data and then it was machine learning and now it’s called deep learning”. It was not entirely clear if he wa...

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