AI ‘gold rush’ for chatbot training data could run out of human-written text

Traffic on Interstate 35 passes a Microsoft data center on Sept 5, 2023, in West Des Moines, Iowa. Artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT could soon run out of what keeps making them smarter – the tens of trillions of words that people have written and shared online. — AP

Artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT could soon run out of what keeps making them smarter – the tens of trillions of words people have written and shared online.

A new study released Thursday by research group Epoch AI projects that tech companies will exhaust the supply of publicly available training data for AI language models by roughly the turn of the decade – sometime between 2026 and 2032.