The Download: a startup has a solution for AI’s groupthink problem

Large language models (AI systems trained on text data to generate responses) tend to give predictable, repetitive answers to open-ended questions, a problem called groupthink. The Australian startup Springboards built an LLM called Flint that has been trained to produce a wider variety of creative responses to open-ended questions like travel recommendations, pushing chatbots away from obvious or formulaic answers.