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Meta’s Yann LeCun says worries about A.I.’s existential threat are ‘complete B.S.’

AI pioneer Yann LeCun doesn’t think artificial intelligence is actually on the verge of becoming intelligent. LeCun — a professor at New York University,

Turning Award — has been open about his skepticism before, for example tweeting that before we worry about controlling super-intelligent AI, “we need to have the beginning of a hint of a design for a system smarter than a house cat.” LeCun argued that today’s large language models lack some key cat-level capabilities, like persistent memory, reasoning, planning, and an understanding the physical world. In his view, LLMs merely demonstrate that “you can manipulate language and not be smart” and will never lead to true artificial general intelligence (AGI).

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