Artificial intelligence rivaling that of a typical human is still more than five years away, according to an AI leader at Meta Platforms Inc.
On Jan. 8, Yann LeCun, vice president and chief AI scientist at the Menlo Park, California, social media giant and technology company, expressed skepticism about comments recently made by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman that the technology industry could soon develop so-called artificial general intelligence, or AGI.
“I don’t see this until five or six years [later],” LeCun said at a panel event held at the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
In a recent blog post, Altman said OpenAI is getting closer to developing a working AGI model….