AI chatbots like ChatGPT will never be as intelligent as humans: Meta’s AI chief | Technology News
Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has said large language models (LLMs), which power AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini, will never be able to match humans when it comes to reasoning and planning.
In an interview with the Financial Times, LeCun said large language models currently have a “very limited understanding of logic” and they “do not understand the physical world, do not have persistent memory, cannot reason in any reasonable definition of the term and cannot plan… hierarchically.”
Large language models like ChatGPT, he added, are “intrinsically unsafe” because they can only answer prompts correctly if the data they are trained on is accurate. LeCun said the evolution of large language models was limited as the models only learn when humans feed data and that what you might think of as reasoning is basically “exploiting accumulated knowledge from lots of training data.” But despite their limitations, LLMs like ChatGPT and Gemini are very useful, the scientist said.
When asked how AI can reach human-level intelligence, LeCun said Meta’s Fundamental AI Research (Fair) lab, which has around 500 people, is working on a new AI system that can develop common sense and learn how the world around us works. This approach, known as ‘world modelling’, is potentially risky for Meta as investors want quick returns on their AI investments.
LeCun believes that developing Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI, is not a design or technology development problem but a scientific one.
Last month, Mark Zuckerberg said he would spend more on AI and wanted to make Meta “the leading AI company in the world”, following which the social media giant lost around $200 billion in valuation.
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First uploaded on: 28-05-2024 at 12:12 IST
