No. Big data was driven by people who had big data problems. It started with Hadoop which was inspired by what existed at Google and became popular in enterpri

No. Big data was driven by people who had big data problems. It started with Hadoop which was inspired by what existed at Google and became popular in enterprises all around the world who wanted a cheaper/better way to deal with their data than Oracle. Spark came about as a solution to the complexity of Hive/Pig etc. And then once companies were able to build reliable data pipelines we started to see AI being able to be layered on top.