Think smaller for a big edge in AI

A demonstration of Exaone, LG’s generative artificial intelligence, on video monitors at an LG AI Research office in Seoul. — ©2023 The New York Times Company

CHATGPT, Bard, Claude. The world’s most popular and successful chatbots are trained on data scraped from vast swaths of the Internet, mirroring the cultural and linguistic dominance of the English language and Western perspectives.

This has raised alarms about the lack of diversity in artificial intelligence. There is also the worry that the technology will remain the province of a handful of American companies.