Yann LaCun of Meta contradicted what Nvidia said that AI “will be very competitive” and noted that AI has currently the development “of a cat.” Meta’s chief scientist admitted that “the race for artificial intelligence is heating up.” For Yann LaCun, generative AI is not just a fad, but there is high competition to dominate the market.
Meta’s chief scientist, Yann LaCun, noted that companies “have a lot to gain” from Artificial Intelligence (AI), which has become a “fad.” However, he thinks that AI is still decades away from acquiring quantum sensitivity.
In an interview with CNBC, the Meta manager contradicted what Nvidia said that AI “will be very competitive” against humans in less than five years. For Yann LaCun, the chip manufacturer “supplies the weapons” in the “Artificial Intelligence war.”
Goal: Today’s AI is Researchers’ Dream of Decades
At the end of September, Meta admitted that “the race for artificial intelligence is heating up” and that they were the latest to enter the scene with their own AI chatbot. Around that time, it launched a new conversational AI assistant called Meta AI.
Meta AI is based on one of the company’s large language models and partnerships with Microsoft Bing. Admitting tough behavior for AI, the company also launched 28 chatbots of celebrities and cultural icons on its platforms.
For Yann LaCun, generative AI is not just a fad, but there is high competition to dominate the market and he explained that the current development of this technology is that of “a cat.” He even explained that current linguistic models “are not enough” to create advanced types of systems.
Yann LaCun admitted that the current development of AI is the result of what researchers “have dreamed of for decades”:
“The text is a very poor source of information. You train a system with the equivalent of 20,000 years of reading material and it still doesn’t understand that if A equals B, then B equals A. There are a lot of really basic things about the world that they just don’t learn through this type of training.”
Meta Competes in AI against Microsoft, Nvidia and OpenAI
Despite criticism of the development of AI, Meta ordered 16,000 units of Nvidia A100 GPUs months ago for its Llama AI software, as the company continues to develop its AI model. Meta believes Nvidia chips remain the “gold standard” in the AI market.
Meta’s chief scientist pointed out the following:
“What we hope to see emerge are new chips that are not graphics processing units, but simply deep learning neural accelerators. The number of problems that can be solved with quantum computing can be solved much more efficiently with classical computers.”
Weeks ago, Meta began rolling out Generative AI features such as background generation, image expansion, and text variation to advertisers. While there is a duopoly between Google and OpenAI in the generative AI market, Meta is doubling down on its efforts to disrupt it.
Meta maintained that the chatbot has multiple personalities and can chat as 28 different celebrities and influencers. However, experts have expressed concern about the chatbot’s impact on user privacy.
The fact is that Yann claims that NVIDIA “has a lot to gain” from the rise of AI, since NVIDIA GPUs have played a fundamental role in the development of Artificial Intelligence in general, and the companies that have jumped on the car depend almost entirely on the chips they develop and market.
By Leonardo Perez
