E15: Unlocking the Internet's Treasure with Rich Skrenta

E15: Unlocking the Internet's Treasure with Rich Skrenta

From Practically Intelligent by Sinan Ozdemir and Akshay Bhushan

August 19, 2024 · 40 min · Season 1 · Episode 15

About this episode

Rich Skrenta discusses the role of Common Crawl in data aggregation and AI, along with the challenges of maintaining open internet access.

In this episode of Practically Intelligent, Sinan and Akshay sit down with Rich Skrenta, the Executive Director of the Common Crawl Foundation. Rich shares his extensive experience in data aggregation and AI and how that ties into the history, mission, and future of Common Crawl—a nonprofit organization responsible for one of the largest open-source web data repositories in the world. The three discuss the challenges and opportunities of expanding Common Crawl's global reach, the critical role of curated data in training large language models, and the importance of maintaining open access to the internet in the age of cutting edge AI.Key topics include: The importance of curated data in AI training Challenges of expanding Common Crawl globally The future of open internet access in the AI era

People in this episode

Hosts: Sinan Ozdemir, Akshay Bhushan

Guest: Rich Skrenta

Topics covered

  • data aggregation
  • AI
  • open-source web data
  • global reach
  • curated data
  • large language models
  • open internet access

Keywords

  • data aggregation
  • AI
  • Common Crawl
  • open-source
  • curated data
  • language models
  • internet access

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Common Crawl Foundation, Common Crawl

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