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Facebook’s Head of AI Wants US to Stop Using the Terminator to Talk About AI
Facebook's head of artificial intelligence Yann LeCun says Yann LeCun says that even recent advances in the field have not taken us closer to super-intelligent machines.
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Yann LeCun is one of AI's most accomplished minds, so when he says that even recent advances in the field aren't taking us closer to super-intelligent machines, you need to pay attention.
LeCun has been working in AI for decades, and is one of the co-creators of convolutional neural networks — a type of program that's proved particularly adept at analyzing visual data, and powers everything from self-driving cars to facial recognition. Now, as head of Facebook's AI research facility FAIR, he helps AI make the journey from the lab to the real world. His team's software automatically captions photos for blind users and performs 4.5 billion AI-powered translations a day.
"We had a bigger impact on products than Mark Zuckerberg expected," LeCun told The Verge over Skype recently. But, as he explained during the interview, it's clear to him that AI still has a long, long way to go before it approaches anything near the intelligence of a baby, or even an animal. Oh, and if you don't mind, he'd really like it if we all stopped using Terminator pictures on AI articles.
From "Managing Multicore Memory"
MIT News (09/13/13) Larry Hardesty
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