Landing AI hires vision expert Dechow to correct the Big Data fallacy

The field of deep learning has been suffering from what you might call a Big Data fallacy, the belief that more and more data is always a good thing. It may be time to focus on quality rather than just quantity. "There's a very fundamental problem that a lot of AI faces," said Andrew Ng, founder and CEO of Landing AI, a startup working to perfect the technology for industrial uses, in an interview with ZDNet this week. "A lot of AI is focused on maximizing the number of calories, which works up to a certain point," he said. "And sometimes you do have a lot of data, but when you have a small data set, it's more the quality of the data rather than the sheer volume."