In December 2009, Peter Norvig—then Director of Research at Google—delivered his lecture “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data,” at University College Cork. The alternative title was “Billions of Trivial Data Points Can Lead to Understanding.” I was fortunate not only to attend the lecture in person but also to speak with Peter face-to-face afterward.

In December 2025, Peter posted on LinkedIn: “I am now done comparing three LLMs to my own coding on the Advent of Code problems. The LLMs did great! They couldn’t have done it last year.” Read more