Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio. These three names are considered as the spiritual fathers of artificial intelligence technology, which has somehow managed to enter our lives today. All three names were awarded the Turing Prize, the Nobel Prize for computers, in 2018 for their work.
As such, every statement that comes out of the mouths of these names is of great value. This is why the new statements made by Yann LeCun today created a separate agenda. LeCun, opposing the view of the majority, considered the issues that artificial intelligence threatens humanity and will lead to unemployment as “nonsense”.
“Artificial intelligence won’t take over the world”:
LeCun, who just left his job at Google in the past few weeks and started working at Meta, spoke at a press event in Paris. The AI researcher’s view of whether these technologies threatened humanity was “incredibly absurd.” He continued his explanations as follows:
So, will artificial intelligence be able to surpass humans? “Without doubt”:
Although LeCun does not agree with the view that artificial intelligence will take over humanity, he stated that these technologies will leave humans behind in terms of intelligence. Moreover, he shared this with the comment “no doubt”.
However, according to him, it will take years and even decades to reach this level. The main reason for this is that the basic concepts that will enable us to reach this level are still not known today.
People will not be unemployed, things will change:
LeCun, who also received questions about unemployment doubts, gave the following answer to these concerns:
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