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AI driven by human engineering now by computers and data.”
When breaking down how this functions in terms of mechanics, Randall Hunt, former Senior Technical Evangelist at AWS and current CTO at Caylent, an AWS cloud consulting and engineering company, relies on a helpful visualisation.
“ Think of it like a spectrum where the y-axis is data and the x-axis is going to be your compute,” he said during a talk titled An Introduction to Deep Learning.“ Along the y-axis you have the amount of data – from having x-bytes of data.

Thousands of hours

time spent annotating data to train computer vision models
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