AI must tackle the sparsity challenge, says Landing AI's Gopi Prashanth ZDNet

"Sparsity, that's the direction where deep learning should expand," says Gopi Prashanth, who is vice president of engineering at AI-startup Landing AI, run by former Google AI luminary Andrew Ng. In an interview with ZDNet, Prashanth reflected on the challenge of taking something built for really big data, the machine learning approach called deep learning, and re-engineering it for very little data, perhaps just one single sample at a time. It is not an academic concern. The mandate of Ng and his team is to put AI to work for business. That requires using techniques such as machine learning in some settings where there my be very few good examples of a problem to use to train the machine.