Why Human Data is Key to AI: Alexandr Wang from Scale AI

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Oct 4, 202400:35:08Technology

In this conversation with a16z general partner David George, Scale AI founder and CEO Alexandr Wang discusses the three pillars of AI—models, compute, and data—and how creating abundant data is core to the evolution of g...

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