Tech Giants Bet $344 Billion on Large Language Models Despite Emerging Concerns
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Summary
Silicon Valley tech giants are investing $344 billion in AI this year, primarily focused on large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, despite concerns about over-reliance on a single AI technique that shows emerging weaknesses.
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· 4 pulledThis year the world's four largest tech firms will spend $344 billion on AI, mostly on data centers used to train and run so-called large language models
The technology is largely underpinned by the same technique of predicting tokens that appear next in a sequence
Fortunes are riding on one AI technique, even as cracks start to show
Why is Silicon Valley betting on just one way to build artificial intelligence?
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