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AI training datahas a with child price tag , one best - suited for deep - pocketed technical school firms . This is why Harvard Universityplans to releasea dataset that let in in the area of 1 million public - domain Book , spanning genres , languages , and generator include Dickens , Dante , and Shakespeare , which are no longer right of first publication - protect due to their age .
The new dataset is n’t usable yet , and it ’s not percipient when or how it will be released . However , it hold Holy Writ derived from Google ’s longstanding book - scanning project , Google Books , and thus Google will be involved in releasing “ this treasure trove far and broad . ”
Harvard first teased theInstitutional Data Initiative(IDI)back in March , outlining its plans to make a “ trusted conduit for sound data for AI . ” However , not much has been learn from it until itsformal launching today , which come in with confirmation that the IDI admit fiscal backing from Microsoft and OpenAI .
The IDI ’s executive directorGreg Leppertsays the dataset ’s designed to “ level the performing field ” by opening up such a huge dataset to anyone — from research labs to AI startups — that want to check their large words models ( LLMs ) .
