Signal Human genome sequencing fell from a decade to a single day

Summary

This signal shows how scientific progress is opening new sources of data that could feed AI. Sequencing the DNA of a human genome now takes a single day, compared with a decade around the turn of the century. The report presents this as an example of scientific advances generating data in technical fields usable for AI training. Alongside it, efforts are under way to make scientific datasets findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable, known as FAIR, for AI researchers. This matters because high-quality human-generated data is growing scarce and websites are restricting scraping. Scientific data could therefore become a valuable alternative supply for training more capable models.