Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun says AGI is not coming in the next 5 years

Meta’s chief AI scientist went on to say that there is an AI war, and Jensen is supplying the weapons. Nvidia has much to gain from the current AI race since the company’s GPUs are used by the majority of industry players like OpenAI, xAI, Google, Meta and other companies working on the technology.

He said that the current way of training large language models mostly involves feeding huge amounts of text, which is a ‘very poor source of information’ since it lacks the complexity involved in real-world scenarios. LeCun explained that even if the AI is trained on material that requires a human 20,000 years to read, it is unable to understand simple things like A equals B, then B equals A.

The report states that LeCun and other researchers at Meta are therefore working on transformer models that are used to create apps like ChatGPT which are tuned to work with a wide range of data like audio, text, image and video. His claims are corroborated by Microsoft’s president, who also believes that the development of AGI will take several years.

The leading Meta AI scientist also questioned the current capabilities of quantum computers. While tech giants like Microsoft, Google and others are still investing millions in quantum computers, LeCun says that classical computers are currently are more efficient than their quantum counterparts. Other researchers in the company like former tech chief Mike Schroepfer said that quantum machines will eventually improve in the future, but the “long time horizon that it’s irrelevant to what we’re doing.”