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> it's that the dataset really is the 'secret sauce'

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There have been articles about how "data is the new oil" for a couple of decades now, with the first reference I could find being from British mathematician Clive Humby in 2006 [0]. The fact that it rings even more true in the age of LLMs is simply just another transformation of the fundamental data underneath.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Humby#cite_ref-10




> There have been articles about how "data is the new oil" for a couple of decades now, with the first reference I could find being from British mathematician Clive Humby in 2006

I am specifically referring to the phrase I quoted, not some more abstract sentiment.


The best answer to this is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab6GyR_5N6c :)




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