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SILICON Valley’s feverish embrace of large language models (LLMs) shows no sign of letting up. Google is its chatbot Bard into every one of its services, while OpenAI is imbuing its own offering, ChatGPT, , such as the ability to “see” and “speak”, envisaging a new kind of personal assistant. But deep mysteries remain about how these tools function: what is really going on behind their shiny interfaces, which tasks are they truly good at and how might they fail? Should we really be betting the house on technology with so many unknowns?
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