OpenAI, Meta Debate Wild Solutions As They Run Out of Data to Train AI
OpenAI, Meta, Google and other tech companies are considering some creative ideas to find more data to train their AI models.
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OpenAI, Meta, Google and other tech companies are considering some creative ideas to find more data to train their AI models.
The race to lead AI has become a desperate hunt for the digital data needed to advance the technology. To obtain that data, tech companies including OpenAI, Google and Meta have cut corners, ignored corporate policies and debated bending the law, according to an examination by The New York Times.
SAN FRANCISCO — In late 2021, OpenAI faced a supply problem. The artificial intelligence lab had exhausted every reservoir of reputable English-language text on the internet as it developed its latest AI system. It needed more data to train the next version of its technology — lots more. So OpenAI researchers created a speech recognition tool called Whisper. It could transcribe the audio from YouTube videos, yielding new conversational text that would make an AI system smarter. Sign up for The M
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