{"id":26097,"date":"2023-12-04T18:27:55","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T18:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/crypto\/metas-ai-boss-says-theres-an-ai-war-underway-and-nvidia-is-supplying-the-weapons\/"},"modified":"2023-12-04T18:27:57","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T18:27:57","slug":"metas-ai-boss-says-theres-an-ai-war-underway-and-nvidia-is-supplying-the-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/crypto\/metas-ai-boss-says-theres-an-ai-war-underway-and-nvidia-is-supplying-the-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta’s AI boss says there\u2019s an \u2018AI war\u2019 underway and Nvidia is \u2018supplying the weapons\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Meta AI boss Yann LeCun sounded off on the industry-wide state of artificial intelligence and quantum computing during a recent event to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the founding of Meta\u2019s Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) team.\u00a0<\/p>\n

During LeCun\u2019s commentary, he commented on Nvidia\u2019s current stranglehold on the AI hardware industry, the likelihood human-level AI will emerge in the near future, and why Meta isn\u2019t currently pursuing quantum computing alongside its competitors. <\/p>\n

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By “not any time soon”, I mean “clearly not in the next 5 years”, contrary to a number of folks in the AI industry.
Yes, I’m skeptical of quantum computing, particularly when it comes to its application to AI.https:\/\/t.co\/5t63w1GNfL<\/p>\n

\u2014 Yann LeCun (@ylecun) December 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The artificial intelligence war<\/h2>\n

LeCun\u2019s views on the imminence of so-called human-level AI are well-documented. He\u2019s long maintained that we\u2019ll need to achieve \u201cdog\u201d and \u201ccat\u201d level AI before the field advances enough to support human-level AI. And he\u2019s so far been reticent to give predictions on when those early milestones will happen. <\/p>\n

By comparison, Elon Musk recently gave the bold prediction that a \u201cDigital God\u201d would arrive within the next 3 to 5 years. <\/p>\n

In the middle, perhaps, lies Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. He recently stated that AI would be able to complete tests in a manner \u201cfairly competitive\u201d with humans in the next five years. While this stops short of claiming full human-level capabilities, some experts view test-taking as a measure of an AI\u2019s capabilities. <\/p>\n

LeCun, apparently, is not among them. During FAIR\u2019s 10 year celebration, he gave commentary related to the Nvidia CEO\u2019s assertions:<\/p>\n

\u201cI know Jensen. There\u2019s an AI war and he\u2019s supplying the weapons.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Meta AI boss\u2019 statement likely refers to the recent news that Nvidia is now the world\u2019s most valuable chip manufacturer, a feat largely attributed to the company\u2019s GPUs becoming the status quo hardware for training large language models such as ChatGPT. <\/p>\n

LeCun further explained that the current technology cited as a potential spark for AGI, generative AI, was simply not good enough. \u201cText is a very poor source of information,\u201d he said, adding \u201ctrain a system on the equivalent of 20,000 years of reading material, and they still don\u2019t understand that if A is the same as B, then B is the same as A.\u201d<\/p>\n

Related: <\/em><\/strong>Nvidia posts record $18B Q3 revenue, cites generative AI as primary driver<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Quantum computing<\/h2>\n

Another area LeCun touched on during the event was quantum computing. Unlike competitors Google and Microsoft, Meta has strayed relatively far from the quantum computing race. <\/p>\n

\u201cQuantum computing is a fascinating scientific topic,\u201d said LeCun, but other comments made it clear that it was his view that the technology wasn\u2019t ripe. \u201cThe number of problems you can solve with quantum computing you can solve way more efficiently with classical computers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Microsoft recently entered into a $100 million partnership with Canadian quantum computing firm Photonic to bring a fault-tolerant, fully functional quantum networking system to market within the next five years.<\/p>\n