The “godfather” of the AI predicts a new technological revolution within five years
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Yann Lecun, considered one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, predicts a new revolution in the field of technology in the next five years. The current AI scientific director at META specifies that current systems must still evolve to develop fully autonomous cars as well as domestic robots.
Bring AI to a cat's intelligence
According to Yann Lecun, there is still a way to go to perfect artificial intelligence. If current models impress by their ability to manipulate language, important gaps still remain in understanding the physical world.
There are still a lot of scientific and technological challenges to come; It is very likely that there will be another AI revolution in the next three to five years due to the limitation of current systems.
The researcher now devotes his work to systems that try to “understand” physical reality by forming a model capable of predicting the behavior of the world. For the moment, it is not a question of equaling human intelligence, Lecun indicates that obtaining a system equivalent to the intelligence of a cat or a rat would already be a victory.
Understand the risks inherent in the development of AI
If the acceleration of technological innovation keeps the entire scientific community in the sector in suspense, it seems important to specify that more progress is necessary in terms of security of these systems. Yoshua Bengio, winner of the Qeprize Prize which rewards certain deserving engineers for their contributions to automatic learning technology, goes to the niche on this subject.
I would like to see the leaders of this world better understand the extent of what we do, the new possibilities brought and the risks that this can cause.
In 2018, Bengio and Yann Lecun had shared the Turing Prize, often considered the equivalent of a Nobel Prize for IT.
