As AI language skills grow, so do scientists’ concerns

With the help of the French government, Le Scao launched a large language model that’s supposed to serve as an antidote to closed systems. – AP

The tech industry’s latest artificial intelligence (AI) constructs can be pretty convincing if you ask them what it feels like to be a sentient computer, or maybe just a dinosaur or squirrel.

But they’re not so good – and sometimes dangerously bad – at handling other seemingly straightforward tasks.