The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data
Alon Y. Halevy, Peter Norvig, Fernando M. B. Pereira · IEEE Intelligent Systems · 2009
Problems that involve interacting with humans, such as natural language understanding, have not proven to be solvable by concise, neat formulas like F = ma. Instead, the best approach appears to be to embrace the complexity of the domain and address it by harnessing the power of data: if other humans engage in the tasks and generate large amounts of unlabeled, noisy data, new algorithms can be used to build high-quality models from the data.