Why, for Meta, ChatGPT is nothing “revolutionary”

ChatGPT, the AI ​​of the moment, does not dazzle everyone. At Meta, we relativize the OpenAI product.

Meta is not one of the admirers dazzled by the chatbot capable of many feats (we could even have done without some). The chief scientist for AI within Mark Zuckerberg’s group, Yann LeCun, explained why during a zoom meeting.

ChatGPT didn’t invent anything

It seems that there are three types of reactions to the meteoric emergence of ChatGPT within GAFAM. The first would be to want to appropriate the technology used as quickly as possible, and that is what Microsoft has just done. The second would be to quickly develop a credible competitor like Google. And the third would simply seek to relativize the tool. Meta is waiting for you on this landing.

This is how we can interpret the remarks just made by Yann LeCun, for whom ” there [aurait] nothing revolutionary ” in this enterprise, ” OpenAI not being particularly ahead of other labs, not at all “. He is not referring here only to giants like Google or Meta, but to a ” another half-dozen start-ups that have similar technology “.

He added that OpenAI had benefited from collective work in the development of ChatGPT. To illustrate his point, he cited the GPT-3 language model used to create the chatbot, which is based on the technology called Transformer, itself launched in 2017 by… Google.

ChatGPT would above all be a well-crafted construction

So, how to explain the success of ChatGPT against all its competitors? Wouldn’t there be a hint of sourness in Yann LeCun? At all, if we are to believe the scientist. Simply, the qualities of this AI would be superficial. ” It’s well put together, it’s well done “, he summarizes.

Thus, if “ When it comes to the underlying techniques, ChatGPT isn’t particularly innovative “, it would nevertheless be very well built. Some scoffers might ask why the tech giants haven’t already put rivals in ChatGPT’s hands. Well, there too, Yann LeCun has an answer.

And it can be summed up in one word: business. “ Both Google and Meta have a lot to lose by setting up systems that make things up. It is true that the future of search engines in a world populated by chatbots benefiting from increasingly powerful AI does not look rosy. But is that really the only reason?

Source : ZDNet