Comment by lexandstuff
6 months ago
Yes, but you're missing their ability to interpolate across that dataset at retrieval time, which is what makes them extremely useful. Also, people are willing to invest a lot of money to keep building those datasets, until nearly everything of economic value is in there.
not everything of economic value is data retrieval
Most economic value is not data retrieval
e.g. farming
The stock market is the root for the majority of all the world's economic value, and has almost-exclusively been data retrieval since 2001.
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Because hypetrain.