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Meta guru says ChatGPT-style AI is out-of-date

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Visitors take picture of billboard sign featuring a new logo and name " in="" front="" of="" Facebook="" headquarters="" Menlo="" Oct.="" John="" EPA-EFE="" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/business/04/28/20220428-meta-epa.jpg"/><figcaption>Visitors take picture of billboard sign featuring a new logo and name &#x27;Meta&#x27; in front of Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California, USA, Oct. 29, 2021.<em> John Mabanglo, EPA-EFE/File</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>PARIS — The chief scientist for Facebook-owner Meta said that generative AI, the technology behind ChatGPT, was already at a dead end, instead promising new artificial intelligence resembling human rationality.</p><p>&quot;Today AI and machine learning really sucks. Humans have common sense, machines don&#x27;t,&quot; Yann LeCun told reporters at a Meta launch event in Paris.</p><p>LeCun spoke as Meta announced its latest AI project -- called image-based Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture, or JEPA.</p><p>The project seeks to move beyond ChatGPT-like generative AI and give machines the ability to conceptualize abstract ideas and not just regurgitate what exists online.</p><p>&quot;Generative models are the past, we will abandon them in favor of joint embedding predictive architecture,&quot; LeCun said, touting the Meta project he will lead.</p><p>&quot;My prediction is that in a few years, generative large language models will not be used any more, we will have a better thing to replace them,&quot; he added.</p><p>LeCun is considered a major thinker on AI and has been a critic of the hype around the generative AI models that power ChatGPT or the image-based Dall-E since they launched last year.</p><p>LeCun believes that the fears and excitement surrounding generative AI grossly inflate its actual capabilities.</p><p>In a Facebook post, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the JEPA tool was open source, meaning it would be available to researchers to tinker with.</p><p>He said the aim was to develop AI that &quot;more closely reflects how people understand the world.&quot;</p><p>&quot;We need models that perceive the world and make predictions. This research is another step in that direction,&quot; Zuckerberg added.</p><p>Compared to its rivals, Meta has taken a more discrete approach to ChatGPT-style AI for its social media platforms Facebook and Instagram.</p><p>Meta infused generative AI in its products, but without the same publicity as Microsoft or Google.</p><p>In parallel, it has also released open source AI models that require less computing power than the technology that powers ChatGPT.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/spotlight/06/12/23/homework-will-never-be-the-same-chatgpt-founder">Homework will &#x27;never be the same,&#x27; says ChatGPT founder</a></li>	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/spotlight/01/25/23/chatgpt-is-changing-education-ai-experts-say-but-how">ChatGPT is changing education, AI experts say — but how?</a></li>	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/05/19/23/chatgpt-is-coming-to-smartphones">ChatGPT is coming to smartphones</a></li></ul><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=2458861" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div>

The chief scientist for Facebook-owner Meta said that generative AI, the technology behind ChatGPT, was already at a dead end. 