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It will take years or decades for the development of artificial intelligence (AI) to reach human-level AI. Robots will not take over the world. “Open source” is the only option.
These are among the thought-provoking insights that Turing Prize Winner Prof. Yann LeCun, hailed by the media as one of the “Godfathers of AI,” has shared with AI experts, scholars, industry leaders from around the world and students at a symposium held recently in Hong Kong.
Entitled AI NEW HORIZONS 2023: A Symposium with Scientific Leaders, the symposium was jointly hosted by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and the Greater Bay Area Association of Academicians (GBAAA).
In his keynote speech, Prof. LeCun envisioned objective-driven AI will help predict the future, and Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA) model will make a paradigm shift in predictive modeling, that JEPA could bring about a “new Renaissance.”
AI, Prof. LeCun said, will become a “shared infrastructure” in the future, like the Internet today. That also means, he said, AI platforms must be made “open source.” “All interactions with the digital world will be mediated by AI assistants… They will constitute a repository of all human knowledge and culture,” the leading AI expert said.
The issue of “open source” AI platform was further discussed at a “Fireside Chat” among Prof. LeCun, HKUST Council Chairman and AI expert Prof. Harry Shum and Director of HKUST’s Center for AI Research Prof. Pascal Fung, at the symposium held at the Asia Society Hong Kong Center.
Admitting that the issue was complex and controversial, Prof. LeCun said open source platform would promote diversity. Prof. Shum shared the view that “open source is a good thing,” but added the AI industry would be divided on the idea in view of their different considerations in developing Large Language Models (LLM).
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