AI Has Already Consumed All Available Music, Claims Former OpenAI Co-Founder
AI has already processed nearly all available music on the internet, according to former OpenAI Co-Founder and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever. Speaking at the NeurIPS conference in Vancouver, he declared that the era of pre-training AI on internet-sourced data is approaching its end.
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The AI industry has extensively collected data, including copyrighted music, to train their models. While companies like Anthropic argue this falls under 'fair use,' major music industry players strongly disagree, leading to ongoing legal disputes.
"We've achieved peak data and there'll be no more," Sutskever explained. "We have to deal with the data that we have. There's only one internet." This includes recorded music available through various channels, which AI companies have used for training purposes.
The future of AI is shifting away from large language models (LLMs) toward 'agentic' systems - autonomous AI that can perform tasks, make decisions, and interact with software independently. Stanford's Fei-Fei Li suggests the next frontier is "spatial intelligence," comparing current 2D internet data training to building AI for a "flat earth."
This evolution marks a significant shift from pattern-matching based on existing data to teaching AI to reason step-by-step, similar to human thought processes. Rather than simply regurgitating information or creating similar patterns, future AI development focuses on genuine reasoning capabilities.
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