
Why the focus on data? Machine learning, which is at the heart of AI, relies on data to do what the term says — exercise its algorithms to learn to recognize patterns and make predictions and decisions. Without data, AI ends up as an empty vessel, a group of algorithms churning without producing anyt…
It comes from a story about a donkey. While standing in the middle of the road it sees water on the left side and hay on the right. The donkey is hungry and thirsty and cannot decide what it should do. It looks to the water, then to the hay. It does this for so long that it dies in the middle of the road.