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LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents

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edot · 1791067681 · focus · HN ↗
Absolutely based. Finally someone of stature in the industry calling this whole fear overblown. Bill Gates sounded like a nontechnical goofball in his Ezra Klein interview where he basically just screamed that the Terminator is real.
There are lots of real worries (government use to suppress the people with minimal manpower or popular support, brainrot and fake news, unemployment due to the belief that LLMs can replace people, education collapse, etc.) we should instead be looking at. This whole rogue AI shtick is tiresome.
1. reasonableklout · 1791077807 · focus · HN ↗
  LeCun has been consistently wrong about LLMs though, claiming that they were a dead end and that they'd never be able to do spatial reasoning, which was disproved a year later with GPT-4 [1]. He is also opposed by his fellow Turing laureates Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, who both signed the CAIS statement on AI extinction risk [2].
  [1]: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1d5ns1z/yann_lecun_confidently_predicted_that_llms_will/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1d5ns1z/yann_lecun_...
  [2]: safe.ai/statement-on-ai-risk
  1. realusername · 1791108405 · focus · HN ↗
    Why chatgpt is still struggling very hard with photo editing and proportions though? It can't modify anything in a picture without messing the 3d space.
    Isn't that a lack of spacial reasoning?

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