RAND report questions reliance on large-language models to beat China in AI race

A new report by the RAND Corp. challenges the prevailing assumptions of U.S. policymakers about scaling up large-language models to beat China in the race for general artificial intelligence, laying out a more expansive strategy that anticipates uncertainties.

“Existing AI technology -- in the form of large language models (LLMs) -- has shown great promise, and many in the AI technology and policy worlds think that LLMs may scale up to AGI in the near future,” note the RAND researchers,...