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Christiaan Hetzner

IBM’s former head of AI says Big Tech needs to end arms race in LLMs to ditch its carbon backpack

Tim Rosenfield, co-founder and co-CEO of Sustainable Metal Cloud Moderator (center) and Seth Dobrin, a venture capitalist and former global head of AI at IBM (right). (Credit: Graham Uden—FORTUNE)

Artificial intelligence has a sustainability problem and the solution, according to IBM’s former global head of AI, is a paradigm shift away from today’s large language models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 or Anthropic’s Claude.

Tools like ChatGPT run on LLMs, artificial neural networks that have been trained on vast amounts of data scraped from the web and provide AI-generated answers to text-based prompts.

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