> That's baloney. The old ML adage "there's no data like more data" is as old as mankind itself. The earliest paper I know which says this explicitly is "The U

> That's baloney. The old ML adage "there's no data like more data" is as old as mankind itself. The earliest paper I know which says this explicitly is "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data" from 2009, only two years before AlexNet: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/de//pubs/archive/35179.pdf https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c... It's about machine translation.