[dimatura]

I don't know, when I was in grad school back in the early 2010s I definitely agreed "big data" in computer vision was important and probably stated that in the intro of some paper. My advisor at the time was very vocal about this. But I was still surprised at how well GPT/CLIP/diffusion/etc started working in the last few years.

[enasterosophes]

I didn't claim Big Data wasn't important. But looking at the opening paragraph of the article, I just don't think it was a revolutionary idea in 2005.

We knew big data was important. There was a lot of hype around how big data will become more and more important in the future.

An email from someone in 2024 saying "hey big data is important!" wouldn't have led to innovations which weren't already happening. It would have been seen as cringe, like is this the best the future can come up with?