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AI chatbots are improving at an even faster rate than computer chips

The large language models behind AI chatbots are developing so rapidly that after eight months, a model only needs half the computing power to hit the same benchmark score - which is much faster than the rate at which computer chips improve

By Chris Stokel-Walker

27 March 2024

AI is getting better and better

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The artificial intelligence models behind popular chatbots developing faster than Moore’s law, a measure of how quickly computer hardware performance increases. That suggests the developers of AI systems, known as large language models (LLMs), are becoming smarter at doing more with less.

“There are basically two ways your performance might improve,” says Tamay Besiroglu at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. One is to scale up the size of an LLM,…

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