What suddenly existed that allowed these breakthroughs to occur that did not exist before? What made technology conducive to Al breakthroughs that could not have happened years ago? Was it faster processors, smarter programming from the coding community or something else? What suddenly happened that permitted these breakthroughs to happen?
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There were theoretical advances in the mathematics and the programming, yes, but the secret sauce of AI is the huge datasets needed to train them.
The explosion of almost-free, nearly-limitless storage for your photos, writing, and everything else “in the cloud” created enormous nests of data that could be sorted and sold to companies looking to train their robots to do stuff like “draw me a dog riding a motorcycle.”
These datasets are also largely available to research students and others looking to build projects around AI. Some of it is free.
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