OpenAI’s ChatGPT is a product, not AI research: Meta Chief AI Scientist
Meta Chief AI researcher Yann LeCun has said that OpenAI’s ChatGPT represents a product, not actual research and development in the field of artificial intelligence (AI).
According to him, OpenAI has not made any real scientific breakthroughs and ChatGPT “is not particularly innovative”.
“When we talk about GPT-4 or anything about OpenAI right now, we’re not talking about research and development, we’re talking about product development,” LeCun said in a live webcast on YouTube.
“OpenAI went from a relatively open AI research lab, as the name suggests, to a for-profit company and now a kind of contract research lab mostly for Microsoft that doesn’t reveal anything about what they do anymore, so this is product development; this is not R&D,” he emphasized.
LeCun and Andrew Ng, founder and CEO of applied AI company Landing.ai and AI training firm DeepLearning.ai, opposed the six-month delay in AI testing proposed by AI researchers and billionaires including Elon Musk. , reports ZDNet.
“I feel that while AI today has some risk of harm, it’s also creating real value in education and healthcare, it’s incredibly exciting, value that so many people are creating to help other people,” Ng said.
“As amazing as GPT-4 is today, building something better than GPT-4 will help all these applications help a lot of people,” Ng added.
LeCun predicted that free research will produce programs that meet or exceed the capabilities of GPT-4.
OpenAI is facing a new complaint asking the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate the company and halt commercial deployment of its major language models, including ChatGPT.
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