But now compute has finally caught up with data, and it wants more. We are forced for the first time to stop thinking of data as effectively infinite and free, and to face the reality of how much time and how many people it took to produce our huge-but-finite store of “data startup capital.”
We may be running up against text data limits on the public web. But the big data companies got that name for a reason. If they can tap into the data of a Gmail, Facebook Messenger or YouTube then they will find tons of more fuel for their generative models.
We may be running up against text data limits on the public web. But the big data companies got that name for a reason. If they can tap into the data of a Gmail, Facebook Messenger or YouTube then they will find tons of more fuel for their generative models.