AI Supremacy
The Biggest European AI Startup just came out of Stealth.
While I am a contrarian and realist in my coverage of AI as my baseline, there are however times when my own exuberance and optimism for a better path in AI research shines through. An alternative to the deceptive AGI marketing (by Sam Altman) is one of those moments.
To be sure Generative AI has ushered in an era where Artificial intelligence has made substantial progress over the past decade (2017 to 2022 being a fairly nascent period). Predictive and generative systems have transformed how we analyze, retrieve knowledge, and create content at global scale. But this isn’t enough. The Machine Economy ahead will demand more.
Like many of you I’ve been following the criticism around LLMs by the likes of Yann LeCun, Gary Marcus and many others in the last few years. Yann LeCun, a Turing Award winner and a pioneer of modern AI, has become one of the most prominent critics of the current “LLM-centric” path and his alternative is to me fascinating. Instead of AGI they propose Superhuman Adaptable Intelligence, or SAI.
“SAI points toward self-supervised learning for acquiring generic knowledge from unlabeled data, and world models for planning and zero-shot transfer.” – Ravid Shwartz Ziv
