Andrew Marantz reports on the debate over artificial intelligence and machine learning, taking in figures and companies including Sam Altman, Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun, ChatGPT, and OpenAI.
In a recent podcast with venture capitalist Harry Stebbings, LeCun responded to Musk's views. Musk in many interviews has flagged the dangers of AI, especially after OpenAI rolled out ChatGPT.
Decades are happening in weeks in the world of artificial intelligence. A fortnight ago, OpenAI released GPT-4, the latest model of its chatbot. It passed the bar exam in the 90th percentile, whereas the previous model only managed the tenth. Last week, Google introduced its own chatbot, Bard. Now, the British government is announcing plans to regulate