ChatGPT has received some scathing criticism from the AI expert at Meta

Despite ChatGPT's enormous popularity and daily media attention, Yann LeCun, Meta's head of artificial intelligence research, is unimpressed. Although it might come as a surprise, Meta has an AI program of its own that has been making significant advancements. For instance, 200 languages, including those spoken but unwritten, can be handled by Meta's translation AI. LeCun recently took the chance to express his opinion that OpenAI's ChatGPT "is not really creative" during a web debate series run by the Collective[i] Forecast. According to the ZDNet story, LeCun continued to stress that work on Large Language Models (LLM) started decades ago and ChatGPT was extremely well-built but primarily based on established methodologies. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="976"] ChatGPT: New AI chatbot has everyone talking to it - BBC News[/caption] Photo Credit: BBC LLMs don't admit to ignorance; instead, they hallucinate facts that are untrue, as Lecun noted in a recent, colorfully written tweet. Lecun concurred in a previous tweet with a New York Times piece that claimed Google and Meta were hesitant to make their rival solutions available because of the possibility of false information and hazardous content.

LLMs are still making sh*t up. That's fine if you use them as writing assistants. Not good as question answerers, search engines, etc. RLHF merely mitigates the most frequent mistakes without actually fixing the problem. https://t.co/XnDxF8Q9Zr

— Yann LeCun (@ylecun) January 22, 2023

It's a valid concern given that Meta is a major social media platform that has previously been under media and governmental scrutiny for distributing false information. Considering how simple it is to persuade most LLMs to ignore its safety procedures and social filters, unleashing Meta's LLMs too soon might be fatal for the business. In the meantime, Microsoft expanded its collaboration with OpenAI, in which it has made a significant investment since 2019. Microsoft intends to invest billions in the initiative and employ OpenAI's ChatGPT, Dall-E, and Codex AI technology to improve its products. Microsoft's Azure cloud computing network is used only by OpenAI. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Microsoft expands its pact with OpenAI in 'multibillion dollar' deal | Engadget[/caption] Photo Credit: Engadget Although LLMs and many other AI technologies utilized by ChatGPT were not created by OpenAI, it surely seems inventive to have made this revolutionary service accessible in such an unfettered manner before Meta and Google were even considering it. AI is used by Meta for advanced research and to identify false information in its social media networks, and Google has long integrated AI into Android and Google search. That makes all the difference to the public because neither firm has made the capabilities of their AI systems accessible to everyone the way that OpenAI's ChatGPT and Dall-E do. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] OpenAI Captures the Magic of AI With ChatGPT and DALL-E | Built In[/caption] Photo Credit: Built-in The public's impression of ChatGPT is generally favorable, but given that both Meta and Google have hinted that more AI capabilities are on the way, that may soon change.