In AI, is bigger always better?

As generative AI models grow larger and more powerful, some scientists advocate for leaner, more energy-efficient systems.
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Artificial-intelligence systems that can churn out fluent text, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, are the newest darlings of the technology industry. But when faced with mathematical queries that require reasoning to answer, these large language models (LLMs) often stumble. Take, for instance, this algebra problem:

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Nature 615, 202-205 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00641-w

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  • Clarification 10 March 2023: This article has been modified to clarify that Mark Sellke, a statistician at Stanford University in California, was the only other person involved in introducing the robustness law.

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