Meta AI mastermind and researcher Yann LeCun took to Twitter to dismiss the idea that AI will ever be capable of executing a threat to humanity, describing those fears as “complete B.S.“. A professor at New York University, a senior researcher at Meta, and a recipient of the prestigious A.M. End. Turing Award has been quite vocal in commenting that they have much unease with the idea of superintelligent AI It was noted earlier that before we care to tackle the problem of how to control such advanced AI systems, “we need to have the beginning of a hint of a design for a system smarter than a house cat.“.
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In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, LeCun was asked if AI could harm human existence. His reply was simple: “You’re going to have to pardon my French, but that’s complete B.S.” He said current LLMs must possess some critical abilities even simple animals have: consistent memory, reasoning, planning, and a real understanding of the physical world.
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LeCun argued that although LLMs can effectively manipulate language, this does not count as truly intelligent. He said these models “are not a stepping stone towards AGI, but a detour.” However, according to LeCun, “we need new strategies and breakthroughs to get closer” to AGI. He calls the direction toward the future development of AI on the part of the work of Meta’s Fundamental AI Research, which is researching new ways to process real-world video data.
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Though no one is writing off the possibility of AGI, LeCun feels that AI, at its current stage, is far removed from posing any threat to human society. Instead, he again reiterates that this amounts to a significant leap required to achieve any sembAI intelligence once in AI Therefore, the superintelligent AI worries are unfounded.
