Meta’s AI chief says AI chatbots will never be as intelligent as humans

Artificial Intelligence

At a time when artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots and tools are evolving with new features every day and the fear of them taking up jobs, Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has reassured that AI is not a “natural phenomenon” that poses existential risks to humans. He also emphasised that AI is a technology designed and built by humans, and can never match human intelligence.

LeCun shared these thoughts on microblogging platform X (formerly known as Twitter) and also gave an interview to The Financial Times sharing his thoughts regarding AI. Further, he said that AI currently has a very limited understanding of logic and they “do not understand the physical world, do not have persistent memory, cannot reason in any reasonable definition of the term and cannot plan… hierarchically.”

He also rejected the claims that AI will surpass human intelligence soon. Earlier, Elon Musk had predicted that AI “will probably be smarter than any single human next year.” However, LeCun dismissed these claims stating that “If it were the case, we would have AI systems that could teach themselves to drive a car in 20 hours of practice, like any 17-year-old.”
LeCun was also asked how AI can reach human-level intelligence. He said that his Fundamental AI Research (Fair) lab, which has around 500 people, is working on a new AI system that can learn the thinking of humans and also learn how to approach different situations with common sense.