Is Data More Important Than Algorithms In AI?

In AI, is data more important than algorithms? In AI, is data more important than algorithms? I hope you are not expecting a simple black or white answer to this question. Whether data or algorithms are more important has been debated at length by experts (and non-experts) in the last few years and the short version is that it depends on many details and nuances that take some time to understand. I answered a pretty similar question some time ago in this Quora post: In machine learning, is more data always better than better algorithms?