{"id":166712,"date":"2023-06-30T23:22:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T04:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/facebooks-chief-ai-scientist-says-llms-are-just-a-passing-fad"},"modified":"2023-06-30T23:22:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T04:22:28","slug":"facebooks-chief-ai-scientist-says-llms-are-just-a-passing-fad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/facebooks-chief-ai-scientist-says-llms-are-just-a-passing-fad","title":{"rendered":"Facebook\u2019s Chief AI Scientist Says LLMs Are Just a Passing Fad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/facebooks-chief-ai-scientist-says-llms-are-just-a-passing-fad3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Facebook\u2019s AI guru and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historyofdatascience.com\/yann-lecun\/#:~:text=LeCun%20is%20widely%20credited%20for, able%20to%20identify%20handwritten%20characters.\" class=\"\">machine learning pioneer Yann Lecun<\/a> is coming for the artificial intelligence chatbot craze \u2014 and it may put him at odds with his own employer.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/meta-chief-scientist-calls-doomers-191713064.html\" class=\"\"><em>Fortune<\/em> reports<\/a>, Meta\u2019s chief AI scientist Yann Lecun admitted during a talk in Paris this week that he\u2019s not exactly a fan of the current spate of chatbots and the large language models (LLMs) they\u2019re built on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of people are imagining all kinds of catastrophe scenarios because of AI, and it\u2019s because they have in mind these auto-regressive LLMs that kind of spew nonsense sometimes,\u201d he told the Meta Innovation Press Day crowd. \u201cThey say it\u2019s not safe. They are right. It\u2019s not. But it\u2019s also not the future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook\u2019s AI guru and machine learning pioneer Yann Lecun is coming for the artificial intelligence chatbot craze \u2014 and it may put him at odds with his own employer. As Fortune reports, Meta\u2019s chief AI scientist Yann Lecun admitted during a talk in Paris this week that he\u2019s not exactly a fan of the current [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}