The secrets of small data: How machine learning finally reached the enterprise

Above: Collective learning involves abstracting data -- in this case, sentences -- with ML to uncover universal patterns and structures. The combination of transfer learning and collective learning, among other techniques, is quickly redrawing the limits of enterprise ML. For example, pooling together multiple customers' data can significantly improve the accuracy of models designed to understand the way their employees communicate. Well beyond understanding language, of course, we're witnessing the emergence of a new kind of workplace -- one powered by machine learning on small data.