Chief scientist Yann LeCun Mehta refuted Elon Musk's 'artificial intelligence (AI) warning'. In response to the saying, “AI shall be smarter than humans next yr,” he sarcastically said, “If that’s the case, we could have autonomous driving technology next yr.”
Business Insider reported on the nineteenth (local time) that Chief Scientist LeCun posted a post refuting Tesla CEO Elon Musk's opinion posted on X (Twitter).
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CEO Musk is legendary for sending out warning messages about AI risks. He also signed an open letter in March last yr saying that AI development must be paused.
He also recently said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, “The likelihood that AI will wipe out humanity is small, nevertheless it is just not zero.”
Then Chief Scientist LeCun took the mound. He retorted, “No,” citing Musk’s tweet.
He continued, “Then we must always have (next yr) an AI system that may learn to drive a automobile like a 17-year-old with just 20 hours of practice.”
“But despite the fact that we (you) have tens of millions of hours of labeled training data, we still don’t have fully autonomous and reliable self-driving,” he added.
Chief scientist LeCun, who is taken into account one in every of the '4 kings' of AI, has a particularly negative stance on the threat to human existence attributable to AI and the problem of artificial general intelligence (AGI).
Last yr, it was identified that the present AI intelligence is just not nearly as good as that of a cat. “Cats can remember, they’ll understand the physical world, they’ll plan complex actions, they usually can reason to some extent. In reality, they’re much better than even the most important large language models (LLMs),” he said.
On the idea of this, he identified, “Because of this something big is missing conceptually with a purpose to make AI as intelligent as animals or humans.”
“In the longer term, AI could also be smart enough to offer more useful information than what you’ll be able to get from a search engine,” he asserted. “But immediately, that’s not the case.”
Meanwhile, Musk has said that Tesla can develop a robotaxi with self-driving capabilities by 2020. Nonetheless, Tesla's autonomous driving function remains to be at level 2 or 3.
Reporter Lim Da-jun ydj@aitimes.com
