Artificial intelligence euphoria likely to fizzle out over lack of data

Demis Hassabis, one of the most influential artificial intelligence (AI) experts in the world, has a warning for the rest of the tech industry: Don’t expect chatbots to continue to improve as quickly as they have over the last few years.

AI researchers have for some time been relying on a fairly simple concept to improve their systems: The more data culled from the internet that they pumped into large language models — the technology behind chatbots — the better those systems performed.