How to Train Your Robot(construction-physics.com)
124 points by crescit_eundo | 40 comments
Construction Physics essay by Brian Potter on how robots are trained and the role of training data and scaling in advancing robot AI capabilities.
#training-data on Hacker News
13 stories tagged training-data, newest first.
AI firm HUMXN offers free plumbing and HVAC service in Minnesota to train robots(humxn.io)
29 points by brunomarsjams | 35 comments
HUMXN announcement of a free home service program in Minneapolis, Chicago, and Miami that collects real-world data to train AI and robots.
Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting
348 points by jacquesm | 134 comments
A Tell HN post reporting that OpenAI repeatedly re-enables the 'allow training' data setting after the user turns it off, with a few comments.
More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math(mathstodon.xyz)
845 points by pred_ | 787 comments
Mastodon thread by mathematician Andreas Thom questioning whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished mathematics shared via ChatGPT, citing the non-sofic group result.
Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?(help.mistral.ai)
480 points by teekert | 230 comments
Mistral AI help center article explaining when user input and output data may be used for model training and how to opt out depending on the service.
If you have a Claude account, they're going to train on your data moving forward(old.reddit.com)
337 points by diggan | 158 comments
A Reddit r/LocalLLaMA post saying Anthropic will train on Claude personal account data going forward; the capture shows Reddit's network-policy block page.
Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy(anthropic.com)
711 points by porridgeraisin | 486 comments
Anthropic announcement of updated consumer terms and privacy policy letting it train models on Claude chats unless users opt out by September 28.
The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood(obviouslywrong.substack.com)
335 points by JnBrymn | 218 comments
A Substack essay arguing the Bitter Lesson is really about data rather than compute, citing scaling laws where compute scales with data squared.
Low-background Steel: content without AI contamination(blog.jgc.org)
376 points by jgrahamc | 237 comments
John Graham-Cumming blog post introducing lowbackgroundsteel.ai, a clearinghouse he created in 2023 for online resources not contaminated by AI-generated content.
AI is stifling new tech adoption?(vale.rocks)
456 points by kiyanwang | 403 comments
An essay arguing that AI coding models stifle adoption of new technologies due to training data cutoffs and system prompt bias toward specific tools.
GPTBot – OpenAI’s Web Crawler(platform.openai.com)
319 points by schappim | 267 comments
OpenAI documentation page describing GPTBot, its web crawler, including its user agent string and how site owners can identify or block it.
GitHub Copilot emits GPL code(codeium.com)
465 points by fortenforge | 300 comments
Codeium blog post arguing that GitHub Copilot reproduces GPL-licensed code while Codeium excludes non-permissive code from its training data.
Google denies training Bard on ChatGPT chats from ShareGPT(twitter.com)
392 points by chatmasta | 304 comments
A Twitter thread about reports that Google trained Bard on ChatGPT conversations from ShareGPT, which Google denies; the thread content did not load.