Conversational AI – Could The Future Be About Less Data, Not Big Data?

AI and big data are perfect companions, right? It's indisputable that access to huge volumes of data allows AI assistants to deliver better, faster, more-accurate responses. But there are downsides too. For example, is this reliance on huge amounts of data sustainable or ethical? And if you need 1,000,000 examples to create an application, do time and money become too big a barrier for many developments?