How big data and AI work together

Big data isn't quite the term de rigueur that it was a few years ago, but that doesn't mean it went anywhere. If anything, big data has just been getting bigger. That once might have been considered a significant challenge. But now, it's increasingly viewed as a desired state, specifically in organizations that are experimenting with and implementing machine learning and other AI disciplines. "AI and ML are now giving us new opportunities to use the big data that we already had, as well as unleash a whole lot of new use cases with new data types," says Glenn Gruber, senior digital strategist at Anexinet. "We now have much more usable data in the form of pictures, video, and voice [for example].