Yann LeCun, Meta’s top AI scientist, said that OpenAI’s ChatGPT is a product, not true research and development in the area of artificial intelligence (AI).
He claims that OpenAI has produced no significant scientific discoveries and that ChatGPT is “not especially creative.”
“When we speak about GPT-4, or whatever OpenAI is putting out right now, we’re not talking about R&D; we’re talking about product development.” “LeCun made the remarks during a live broadcast on YouTube.
“As the name implies, OpenAI evolved from a somewhat open AI research lab to a for-profit corporation, and now a type of contract research lab largely for Microsoft that doesn’t share anything about how they function, so this is product development; this is not R&D.” “He was emphatic.
According to ZDNet, LeCun and Andrew Ng, founder and CEO of applied AI business Landing.ai and AI educational outfit DeepLearning.ai, argued against the six-month embargo on AI testing urged by AI academics and billionaires like Elon Musk.
“I believe that, although AI today poses some danger of damage, it is also producing tremendous value, for education, for healthcare, which is really exciting, the value that so many people are creating to assist other people.” “Ng said.
“Building something even better than GPT-4 would help all of these applications assist a lot of people, as fantastic as GPT-4 is now.” “Ng elaborated.
LeCun projected that free flow of research would yield programmes that will reach or surpass GPT-4 in capabilities.
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