Elon Musk says AI has already gobbled up all human-produced data to train itself and now relies on hallucination-prone synthetic data

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-11 10:16:55 | Updated at 2025-01-11 12:58:51 2 hours ago

Elon Musk says AI has already gobbled up all human-produced data to train itself and now relies on hallucination-prone synthetic data
https://www.msn.com ^ | 1/11/25 | Story by Sasha Rogelberg

Posted on 01/11/2025 2:04:18 AM PST by RomanSoldier19

AI takes an immense amount of resources—from endless water to an estimated $1 trillion worth of investor dollars—but Elon Musk warned the technology has already run out of its primary training resource: human-created data.

Engineers and data scientists train AI by essentially reducing the entire internet, all books, and every interesting video published into a token that AI can digest and learn from, Musk told Mark Penn, CEO of marketing company Stagwell, in an interview streamed on X Wednesday. But AI has already consumed that information, and requires even more data to fine-tune itself.

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To: RomanSoldier19

But, humans continue to produce more data.

2 posted on 01/11/2025 2:12:41 AM PST by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)

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