Meta's AI Chief Disputes Elon Musk's Claim That AI Will Surpass Humans in 5 Years
• Elon Musk claimed AI could surpass all human intelligence in 5 years; Meta's AI head Yann LeCun strongly disagreed • LeCun said if that were true, AI could easily master skills like driving a car, but it still struggles with full autonomy • LeCun believes today's AI is far from human-level intelligence, comparing it to a housecat's brainpower • He thinks a key ingredient is missing, not just a matter of scaling up current AI and machine learning approaches • Musk has long warned advanced AI could threaten or limit humanity, though his Tesla full self-driving goalposts keep moving back