AI Doomsday is Overhyped
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BIG PICTURE Even AI Doomsday Is Overhyped
For those of you worried that your new boss will be some AI overlord, fear not:
“This AI Pioneer Thinks AI Is Dumber Than a Cat”
That’s a headline from the WSJ about Yann LeCun, Chief AI Scientist at Meta, and the “AI boom’s best-credentialed skeptic.”
When I ask whether we should be afraid that AIs will soon grow so powerful that they pose a hazard to us, he quips: “You’re going to have to pardon my French, but that’s complete B.S.”
—Meta’s Yann LeCun
Similarly, Apple scientists came out with a report this week also questioning the tech’s “intelligence.” While LLMs can mimic logical reasoning, they don’t really understand mathematics, per the study. AI can get tri…
