The Pros and Cons of ChatGPT for AI and Robotics Development

The cost of running large language models that underpin AI chatbots is limiting their quality and threatening to throttle the global AI boom. The enormous cost of running these models is also constraining which companies can afford to run them and pressuring even the world’s richest companies to turn chatbots into moneymakers sooner than they may be ready to. The computational power required for generative AI is why OpenAI has held back its powerful new language model, GPT-4, from the free version of ChatGPT, which is still running a weaker GPT-3.5 model. The cost of AI language models is a moving target, and companies are working to make them more efficient. The push for smaller, cheaper models marks a sudden reversal for the industry.