Elon Musk, or Musky as some might say, has been banging on about the prospect of AI becoming smarter than man by no later than the year after next.
“Even if you say that AI doesn’t have agency, well, it’s very likely that people will use the AI as a tool in elections,” he told Fox News last year, while calling for government oversight of the technology. “And then, you know, if AI’s smart enough, are they using the tool or is the tool using them? So I think things are getting weird and they’re getting weird fast.”
Immediately though - the AI top techie from Meta (aka Facebook) responded with his take: - Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief AI scientist and one of the so-called godfathers of the technology, said that while artificial general intelligence was achievable, it could take decades to arrive.
Speaking at an event at its London headquarters to showcase Meta’s AI strategy, LeCun, reflected that scientists were still lacking significant advances that would be required to reach animal intelligence. “AGI is certainly not next year as our friend Elon has said,” he concluded.
Stalker wouldn’t care to enter the debate, but with ‘hallucinating’ AI as it is, the frontier of Artificial General Intelligence could be a long way off yet.
