Will AI Eat Itself?
As AI content spreads across the digital world Aleks and Kevin uncover what happens when models start training on their own output and what can be be done to stop them collapsing.
Listener Gordon is worried that as AI content spreads across the web there'll be proportionally less and less human content for the AI鈥檚 to be trained on with the result their output will just get blander and blander.
He鈥檚 right to be worried, Aleks and Kevin explore the phenomena of 鈥榤odel collapse鈥� the inevitable breakdown of an AI to give useful results if its training data is already AI produced. Speaking to NYU data scientist Professor Julia Kempe the pair discover that training on AI generated data also means a brick wall in terms of improving AI performance.
There is hop however according to Shayne Longpre of the Data Provenance Initiative the answer is to put humans back in the loop to curate the data for the AI鈥檚 and teaching them what鈥檚 good data from bad.
Presenters: Aleks Krotoski & Kevin Fong
Producer: Peter McManus
The Artificial Human is a 麻豆官网首页入口 Audio Scotland production for Radio 4
On radio
More episodes
Previous
Broadcast
- Wednesday 15:30麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 4
Podcast
-
![]()
The Artificial Human
Aleks Krotoski and Kevin Fong answer the questions we're all asking about AI.
