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Ashwani Kumar Shamlodhiya
Ashwani Kumar Shamlodhiya

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Fun Fact about AI Data

FUN FACTS

• AI is being used in medicine, physics, law, education, climate science, and more, so even researchers from non-CS backgrounds are publishing AI-related work.
• Open-source tools like PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Hugging Face make it easy for researchers and students to experiment and publish results.

How Much Data Do We Generate Each Year?

• In 2024, the world generated about 130 zettabytes of data.

• By 2025, it’s projected to reach 181 zettabytes (IDC Global DataSphere), which is a nearly 40% jump in just one year.

• For perspective: 1 zettabyte = 1 trillion gigabytes (GB) — enough to fill over 250 billion DVDs!
1 zettabyte = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes
That’s 21 zeros!
Unit Bytes
1 Kilobyte (KB) 1,000 bytes
1 Megabyte (MB) 1,000,000 bytes
1 Gigabyte (GB) 1,000,000,000 bytes
1 Terabyte (TB) 1,000,000,000,000 bytes
1 Petabyte (PB) 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes
1 Exabyte (EB) 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes
1 Zettabyte (ZB) 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes
1 Yottabyte (YB) 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes
If you stored 1 ZB on smartphones (128 GB each), you'd need over 7.8 billion phones — basically one for every person on Earth!

Interesting Facts About All This Data

  1. 90% of the world’s data was created in just the last 2 years: More data has been made recently than in all of human history before.

  2. Every minute, people generate a staggering amount of content:
    o Over 400+ hours of video are uploaded to YouTube.
    o Around 300,000+ tweets are posted on X (Twitter).
    o Nearly 500,000+ stories are shared on Instagram.
    o WhatsApp users exchange more than 69 million messages.

  3. By 2025, each person on Earth is projected to interact with connected devices about 4,800 times per day — that’s basically one interaction every 18 seconds.

  4. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a massive driver.
    o There are more than 30 billion IoT devices today — from smart speakers and doorbells to industrial sensors — all constantly generating data.

  5. About 90% of all data generated is “unstructured.”
    o This includes videos, photos, audio, social media posts — information that doesn’t neatly fit in a spreadsheet.
    o AI and machine learning are critical for making sense of it.

Why Should You Care?
• This explosion in data fuels AI training, personalized recommendations, predictive analytics, and even healthcare breakthroughs.

• Managing, storing, and protecting it is one of the biggest challenges (and opportunities) for technology and society.

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