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Meta’s Yann LeCun says worries about A.I.’s existential threat are ‘complete B.S.’ | TechCrunch

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AI pioneer Yann LeCun doesn't think artificial intelligence is on the verge of becoming intelligent.

He says today ’s large language models lack some key cat-level capabilities, like persistent memory, reasoning, planning, and understanding the physical world.

LeCUN: LLMs merely demonstrate that “you can manipulate language and not be smart” and will never lead to true artificial general intelligence.

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