Tag Archives: data sources

AI ‘gold rush’ for chatbot training data could lead to depletion of human-written text

AI systems like ChatGPT may soon run out of what makes them smarter—the tens of trillions of words people type and share online. A new study published Thursday by the Epoch AI research group predicts that tech companies will run out of publicly available training data for AI language models between 2026 and 2032, around… Read More »

AI weather forecasts could change the way we live and ruin conversation forever

artificial intelligence weather The result of the Great Storm of 1987 was not just the loss of 15 million trees. This shook the country’s confidence in weather forecasts. After all, who can forget weatherman Michael Fish infamously telling viewers worried a hurricane was approaching: “Don’t worry, there’s no such thing!” Fortunately, almost 40 years later,… Read More »

Government databases should withdraw information, a legal expert explains

In 2004, Hwang Woo-suk was celebrated for his groundbreaking discovery of creating cloned human embryos, and his work was published in the prestigious journal Science. But the discovery was too good to be true; Dr. Hwang had fabricated the data. Science publicly retracted the paper and assembled a team to investigate what went wrong. Retractions… Read More »