This Big Data Lesson Applies To AI
BigDataWire, Tuesday, August 12th, 2025
There's no shortage of hype when it comes to AI. We're constantly bombarded with warnings that AI is about to change things forever, and that if we don't implement AI now, we risk becoming failures.
In many ways, the current climate resembles the early days of the big data boom. We learned some (painful) lessons from that episode, but do business leaders remember?
The technology sector moves very quickly and is prone to periodic fits of irrational exuberance. People of a certain age will recall the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, when the World Wide Web emerged and the commercialization of the Internet began. When those early, shaky business models didn't pan out-pets.com, anyone?-investors fled, resulting in the dot-com bust of 2000 and a recession from 2001 to 2003.