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The data black hole at the center of AI

Explore episode Jun 19, 2026
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The data black hole at the center of AI · Jun 19, 2026

Using the Chinchilla scaling law constants, even an infinite number of model parameters would only decrease the required training data by a factor of 10 — while humans are thousands to millions of times more sample-efficient.

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