Definition
Data prepared for a stated AI use with the quality, structure, documentation, provenance, permissions, coverage, and separation that use requires.
Distinguish it from nearby terms
AI-ready is not a universal property and does not merely mean clean or machine-readable. Data suitable for retrieval may be unsafe or unrepresentative for training, and evaluation data must be protected from training contamination.
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State the model task, population, rights, freshness, lineage, and train-evaluation boundary before calling a dataset ready.