LeCun: OpenAI's technology is well-engineered but not scientifically innovative
Yann LeCun · Is ChatGPT A Step Toward Human-Level AI? — With Yann LeCun, Meta Chief AI Scientist · Jan 25, 2023 · at 6:54
Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun critiques OpenAI's underlying research novelty following the launch of ChatGPT.
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“Their technology is not particularly innovative from the scientific point of view. It's very well engineered. So they put together, you know, large scale scaled up system with trained with very well curated data. I mean, they know what they're doing. But in terms of advance, there's nothing. Well, not much.”
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