It turns out that a vital missing ingredient in the long-sought after goal of getting machines to think like humans — artificial intelligence — has been lots and lots of data.

Last week, at the O’Reilly Strata + Hadoop World Conference in New York, Salesforce.com’s head of artificial intelligence, Beau Cronin, asserted that AI has gotten a shot in the arm from the big data movement. “Deep learning on its own, done in academia, doesn’t have the [same] impact as when it is brought into Google, scaled and built into a new product,” Cronin said.

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