Boz To The Future The Future of AI Research: With Guests Joelle Pineau and Yann LeCun
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Dec 5, 2023 
Host Boz talks to Meta's VP of AI Research Joelle Pineau and Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun about FAIR, Meta's Fundamental AI Research Lab, and the importance of open research and collaboration. They discuss the limitations of current AI systems, theory of mind and world models in AI research, the concept of consciousness, and their online presence on different social media platforms.
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AI's Missing Common Sense
- Current AI excels at complex tasks but lacks common sense reasoning and real-world understanding.
- Yann LeCun highlights the gap between AI's capabilities and basic human or animal skills.
Integrating Responsibility in AI Research
- Integrate responsibility into AI research by considering ethics early on.
- Implement mitigations for risks like privacy and safety as the work matures, using techniques like red teaming.
AI Augmenting Human Intelligence
- Even if AI surpasses human intelligence in some areas, it will augment human capabilities.
- Yann LeCun argues that smarter AI can assist humans, similar to how leaders hire smarter individuals.