Meta’s AI boss says LLMs not enough: ‘Human level AI is not just around the corner’

According to Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, cats are still smarter than GPTs.

Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and Claude aren’t going to lead to human-level artificial intelligence (AI) any time soon. At least not according to Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief AI scientist.

LeCun recently spoke with Time Magazine to discuss artificial general intelligence (AGI), a nebulous term used to describe a theoretical AI system that is capable of performing any task given the right resources.

While there’s no scientific consensus as to what an AI system would need to be capable of in order to be considered an AGI, LeCun’s boss, Meta CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg, recently made waves when he announced that Meta was pivoting to the development of AGI.

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