OpenAI’s ChatGPT is a product, not AI research: Meta chief AI scientist

Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief AI scientist, once said that OpenAI’s ChatGPT represents a product, not an actual development

New Delhi: Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief artificial intelligence scientist, has said that OpenAI’s ChatGPT represents a product rather than actual research and development in the field of artificial intelligence (AI).

According to him, OpenAI has not made any actual scientific breakthroughs, and ChatGPT is “not particularly innovative.”

“When we talk about GPT-4, or whatever OpenAI is putting out right now, we’re not talking about R&D, we’re talking about product development,” LeCun said during a YouTube webcast.

“OpenAI’s transformation from a relatively open AI research lab, as the name suggests, to a for-profit company, is now a sort of contract research lab primarily for Microsoft, and no longer reveals anything about how they work, so this is Product development; it’s not R&D,” he emphasized.

LeCun joins Andrew Ng, founder and CEO of applied AI company Landing.ai and AI education institution DeepLearning.ai, in opposing a six-month moratorium on artificial intelligence proposed by AI researchers and billionaires, including Elon Musk. Intelligence Test, reports ZDNet.

“I think it’s incredibly exciting that while AI today has some risk of harm, it’s also creating real value for education and healthcare, and many people are creating value to help other people,” Ng said. explain.

“As amazing as GPT-4 is today, building something better than GPT-4 will help all these applications help a lot of people,” Ng added.

LeCun predicts that the free flow of research will produce programs that match or exceed GPT-4 in capability.

OpenAI is facing a new complaint from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), calling for an investigation of the company and a moratorium on its commercial deployment of large language models, including ChatGPT.