Human Level AI Technology Still Years Away: Meta AI Chief

Current artificial intelligence technology is good at responding to queries, but it is not great at reasoning or making plans, Yann LeCun said.
Human Level AI Technology Still Years Away: Meta AI Chief
People check their phones as AMECA, an AI robot, looks on at the All In artificial intelligence conference in Montreal on Sept. 28, 2023. Ryan Remiorz /The Canadian Press
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The point at which artificial intelligence rivals the intelligence of a typical human is still more than five years away, according to an AI leader at Meta Platforms Inc.

On Jan. 8, Yann LeCun, vice president and chief AI scientist at the Menlo Park, California, social media giant and technology company, expressed skepticism about comments recently made by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman that the technology industry could soon develop so-called artificial general intelligence, or AGI.

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