AI Hits Growing Pains as Tech Giants Confront Limits of Data and Hardware
• AI companies facing limits - from demands on natural resources to need for more data/hardware investments
• Reliance on synthetic, AI-generated data degrading quality/reliability of models
• Danger of training models on own synthetic outputs likened to "mad cow disease"
• Tech giants scrambling to reduce dependence on AI chip suppliers
• Massive investments in homegrown hardware showing costly commitments to unproven AI future