AI has run out of training data, warns data chief

AI models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini have run out of training data, according to Goldman Sachs’ data chief.

Neema Raphael, who serves as the banking giant’s chief data officer and head of data engineering, said the issue could stunt the development of artificial intelligence .

“We’ve already run out of data,” Mr Raphael said on the bank’s Exchanges podcast, adding that AI models are increasingly turning to so-called synthetic data generated by artificial intelligence.

"I think what might be interesting is people might think there might be a creative plateau... If all of the data is synthetically generated, then how much human data could then be incorporated? I think that'll be an interesting thing to watch from a philosophical perspective.”

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