AI labs pay hundreds of thousands for dead startups' emails, Slack, Jira data to build simulated work environments for reinforcement learning training

Iain Martin on X: "AI labs are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy email, Slack and Jira threads from dead startups as feedstock for ‘reinforcement learning gyms,’ which specialize in using defunct company data to build simulated work environments https://t.co/QuCk36wAPY" / X

AI labs are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy email, Slack and Jira threads from dead startups as feedstock for ‘reinforcement learning gyms,’ which specialize in using defunct company data to build simulated work environments...