Indeed, Musk suggested that synthetic data — data generated by AI models themselves — is the path forward. “The only way to supplement [real-world data] is with synthetic data, where the AI creates [training data],” he said. “With synthetic data … [AI] will sort of grade itself and go through this process of self-learning.”

Elon Musk, who once pledged a fleet of Tesla robotaxis a million ... On Monday, he praised data crowd-sourced from drivers helping him train his Full Self-Driving (FSD) software that showed the number of highway miles per critical intervention on his ...

Elon Musk, owner of AI firm xAI, has agreed with other AI experts that the pool of real-world data to train AI models is almost empty. Speaking during a live-streamed discussion with Stagwell Chairman Mark Penn, Musk said, "We've now exhausted basically the cumulative sum of human knowledge... in AI training. That happened basically last year."

Elon Musk and other experts in the field of artificial intelligence believe that we have exhausted AI training data.