How Not to Be Stupid About AI, With Yann LeCun

He scoffs at his peers dystopian scenarios of supercharged misinformation and even, eventually, human extinction..

More recently, he helped persuade CEO Mark Zuckerberg to share some of Metas AI technology with the world: This summer, the company launched an open source large language model called Llama 2, which competes with LLMs from OpenAI, Microsoft, and Googlethe select few corporate entities implied in the letter to Biden..

Critics warn that this open source strategy might allow bad actors to make changes to the code and remove guardrails that minimize racist garbage and other toxic output from LLMs; LeCun, AIs most prominent Pangloss, thinks humanity can deal with it...

Yes, in the sense that AI systems eventually will produce musicor visual art, or whateverwith a technical quality similar to what humans can do, perhaps superior..

If AI systems were good enough to match elite artistic achievements and you didnt know the backstory, the market would be flooded with Charlie Parkerlevel music, and we wouldnt be able to tell the difference...

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