any time soon. professor yann lecun s words are in sharp contrast to those of the other two men he worked with on the science that underpins modern ai. doctor geoffrey hinton retired recently and he said he regretted his life s work. professor yoshua bengio said that he worries about bad actors misusing the tech. both academics and the companies building ai agree that regulation is the best way to try to maximise its benefits and minimise the risks. chatgpt, for example, was unheard of this time last year. yann lecun is confident that ai will be a useful tool rather than a master, and he heralded a new renaissance for humanity. chatgpt couldn t have put it better. zoe kleinman, bbc news. a renaissance maybe but the bbc has been hearing from one uk worker who has already lost his job to artificial intelligence along with his colleagues. dean meadowcroft and his team of marketing copywriters were asked by their bosses to trial working with the ai app chatgpt before christmas.
as the godfathers of ai . the other two have now raised concerns about its impact on society and jobs. but professor lecun says it will represent a new renaissance for humanity . our technology editor, zoe kleinman, has more. the person pouring the cold water on the greatest fears surrounding artificial intelligence is professor yann lecun, head of ai at facebook s owner, meta. speaking in paris, he said, the scenario we are going to turn on the computer and immediately it s going to take over the world, that s just preposterously ridiculous. the fear is that the technology is evolving very rapidly and could put many people out of a job. he said it would change work, but said, it s going to create shifts in professions. a lot will disappear but a lot of them are going to appear. the same way 20 years ago you couldn t imagine a youtuber making a living. he also thinks it s highly unlikely that al systems will be more intelligent than humans