{"id":23642,"date":"2024-06-20T06:30:50","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T06:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web3unplugged.io\/blog\/?p=23642"},"modified":"2024-06-20T06:30:52","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T06:30:52","slug":"meta-and-amazon-bosses-make-the-case-for-ai-optimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web3unplugged.io\/blog\/meta-and-amazon-bosses-make-the-case-for-ai-optimism\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta And Amazon Bosses Make The Case For AI Optimism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Despite warnings over artificial intelligence, Meta\u2019s\u00a0<strong>Yann LeCun<\/strong>\u00a0and Amazon\u2019s\u00a0<strong>Werner Vogels<\/strong>\u00a0predict a brighter future thanks to the technology. In the latest episode of\u00a0<em>Marketplace Europe<\/em>, CNN\u2019s\u00a0<strong>Anna Stewart<\/strong>\u00a0speaks to them at the VivaTech technology conference in Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LeCun is known as one of the \u2018godfathers of AI\u2019. As Meta\u2019s Chief AI scientist, he has a borderline utopian view for AI\u2019s future. He tells Stewart,\u00a0\u201cMy optimistic, cosmic view of the future of AI is that it will augment human intelligence to the point of perhaps creating a sort of a new Renaissance, perhaps, like a new century of enlightenment. You know, a little bit like what happened in the 16th or 17th century.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Big Tech companies want to focus on AI\u2019s power to do good rather than its pitfalls. As Amazon\u2019s Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Vogels believes AI can tackle big problems both today and in the future. He states, \u201cI think we as technologists not only have a responsibility to build the next amazing spam filter, but also solve some of the world\u2019s hardest problems that we\u2019re seeing \u2013 healthcare, you know, food, inequality in general. So yeah, I think we can use technology for that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although LeCun\u2019s fellow \u2018Godfathers\u2019,\u00a0<strong>Geoffrey Hinton<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Yoshua Bengio<\/strong>\u00a0endorsed an open letter saying that AI companies need more oversight in case the technology runs out of control, the Frenchman says their fears may be overblown. He explains, \u201cThe big question I think in my mind is, should research and development in AI be regulated? And there, the opinion of people diverges depending on whether they think AI is intrinsically dangerous, whether there is some sort of existential risk, right? [\u2026] I think it\u2019s very counterproductive to regulate research and development.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LeCun says he believes that, \u201cWe are going eventually to have systems that are smarter than humans in all domains where humans are smart [\u2026] There is no question this is going to happen, but it\u2019s not for tomorrow.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meta\u2019s Chief AI scientist tells Stewart he doesn\u2019t know when exactly this will happen, but that, \u201cThe history of AI for the last 60, 70 years is littered with people who say, \u2018Oh, now we have the secret. Now we\u2019re going to have machines that are really intelligent within 10 years.\u2019 And it turned out to not be true.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Big Tech companies have made billion in AI investments and for Vogels, it\u2019s time for Europe to get serious about innovation. He says, \u201cHow many young businesses here are looking at using artificial intelligence in one way or another to improve or augment their products. We need to make sure that that innovation continues to happen, and that the innovation doesn\u2019t just come outside Europe. We already have a very long history in Europe of underinvesting in R&D.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He concludes, \u201cThere\u2019re quite a few companies here that not only want to make a good buck, but actually want to do good at the same time. These two things are not mutually exclusive.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite warnings over artificial intelligence, Meta\u2019s\u00a0Yann LeCun\u00a0and Amazon\u2019s\u00a0Werner Vogels\u00a0predict a brighter future thanks to the technology. In the latest episode of\u00a0Marketplace Europe, CNN\u2019s\u00a0Anna Stewart\u00a0speaks to them at the VivaTech technology conference in Paris. 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