A Turing Award winner says the industry’s fix for running out of data is ‘a big mistake’

The Next Web
By Ana Maria ConstantinAug 19, 2026, 6:13 am89 pts
Richard Sutton thinks the AI industry’s answer to running out of training data is a mistake, and he has picked a blunt word for it. “ That’s just a big mistake,” he said of the turn to synthetic data on Sequoia Capital’s Training Data podcast, published on Tuesday and hosted by Sonya Huang and Pat…

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