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It turns out, though, that the Godfathers of AI disagree on at least one of these points.
On the other side, we find Meta’s Yann LeCun.
Hinton delivered his warning earlier this year toThe New York Times.
Fellow Turing Award-winner LeCun largely countered Hinton and defended AI development ina wide-ranging interview with Wired’s Steve Levy.
Open is good
I particularly enjoyed LeCun’s open-source argument.
Now, this is a guy who works as Meta’s Chief AI Scientist.
I’m sure the irony is not lost on LeCun but I think he may be targetingOpenAI.
He’s basically arguing against it.
“The question that people are debating is whether it makes sense to regulate research and development of AI.
And I don’t think it does,” LeCun told Wired.
Some, includingOpenAI’s Sam Altman, believe it’s on the near horizon.
LeCun, though is not one of them.
He argued that we can’t even define AGI because human intelligence is not one thing.
He has a point there.
My intelligence would not be in any way comparable to Einstein’s or LeCun’s.
Even with all that intelligence, LeCun insists that these AIs won’t have human-like motivations and drives.
Global Domination won’t be a thing for them simply because they’re smarter than us.
Do I feel better?
LeCun certainly thinks so.
Wonder if he’s spoken to Hinton lately.
