Artificial intelligence on Hadoop: Does it make sense? ZDNet

This week MapR announced a new solution called Quick Start Solution (QSS), focusing on deep learning applications. MapR touts QSS as a distributed deep learning (DL) product and services offering that enables the training of complex deep learning algorithms at scale. Ted Dunning, MapR chief application architect, explains: "The best approach for pursuing AI/Deep learning is to deploy a scalable converged data platform that supports the latest deep learning technologies with an underlying enterprise data fabric with virtually limitless scale." But being able to run ML or DL on Hadoop does not really make a Hadoop vendor an AI vendor too.