One thing most folks don’t realize about artificial intelligence is that there isn’t going to be any intelligence without knowledge, and that knowledge is derived from a huge amount of raw information. For instance, when Tesla taught their cars to drive, their massive advantage was an ungodly amount of real-life driving data from actual customer videos. The infographic below illustrates the sheer cost of just the training data itself for some better-known models:
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