Meta's chief AI scientist says scaling AI won't make it smarter

Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun doesn't think scaling AI is enough to make it smarter.

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• Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at Meta, pushed back against "scaling laws."
• These laws say that the bigger AI models are, the more high-performing and smarter they will be.
• "It's not just about scaling anymore," he said at a talk in Singapore.

For years the AI industry has abided by a set of principles known as "scaling laws." OpenAI researchers outlined them in the seminal 2020 paper...