You're absolutely right and I appreciate that very much. On the other hand,
there's an incredible amount of hype around Big Data and deep learning,
exactly because the large corporations are doing it. So now everyone wants to
do it, whether they have the data for it or not, whether it really adds
anything to their products or not.
As to the Big N (good one) what I meant to say is that I don't see them trying
very hard to undo their own advantage, by spending much effort developing
machine learning techniques that rely on, well, little data. That would truly
democratise machine learning- much more so than the release of their tools for
free, etc. But then, if everyone could do machine learning as well as Google
and Facebook et al, where would that leave them?
As to the Big N (good one) what I meant to say is that I don't see them trying very hard to undo their own advantage, by spending much effort developing machine learning techniques that rely on, well, little data. That would truly democratise machine learning- much more so than the release of their tools for free, etc. But then, if everyone could do machine learning as well as Google and Facebook et al, where would that leave them?