Human Data is Key to AI: Alex Wang from Scale AI

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🗓️ 24 September 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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What if the key to unlocking AI's full potential lies not just in algorithms or compute, but in data? In this episode, a16z General Partner David George sits down with Alex Wang, founder and CEO of Scale AI, to discuss the crucial role of "frontier data" in advancing artificial intelligence. From fueling breakthroughs with complex datasets to navigating the challenges of scaling AI models, Alex shares his insights on the current state of the industry and his forecast on the road to AGI.

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0:00.0	There will be a lot more divergence between the law of the labs in terms of what
0:04.8	research directions they choose to explore and which ones ultimately have
0:08.5	breakthroughs at various times. One of the hallmarks of this next phase is actually going to be data production.
0:15.4	Basically no agent really works. Well, it turns out there's just no agent data on the internet.
0:20.2	The pricing for model imprints fall dramatically dramatically
0:26.0	dramatically like order of it. Yeah orders order. Order. Yeah two orders of magnitude over two years.
0:32.2	If you've been listening to the A16Z podcast for a while,
0:35.0	you'll know we talk a lot about AI.
0:38.0	We've covered the algorithms at PowerLMs
0:40.0	and the compute required to run them.
0:42.0	But equally important is data.
0:44.9	Our guest today is as deep as you can get
0:46.9	in this world of data, the fuel behind LMPS.
0:50.0	In fact, he even recently said,
0:51.8	quote,
0:52.5	as an industry, we can either choose data abundance or data scarcity.
0:57.1	So what data exist today and what needs to be created,
1:00.0	either measured or synthesized?
1:02.1	Listen in to find out. As I pass it over to A16Z growth, general partner, Sarah Wang,
1:07.8	to properly introduce this episode.
1:09.8	Hey guys, I'm Sarah Wang, general partner on the A16Z growth team.
1:15.0	Welcome back to our AI Revolution series, where we talk to industry leaders about how they're
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