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Yann LeCun, vice president and chief AI scientist at Meta on Wednesday. Social media giant Meta's first Build with AI Summit in India was held here to discuss AI's transformative role in shaping the future of humankind. «AI assistants will eventually be smarter than us, but we should not feel threatened by that. We should feel empowered by it. It's kind of like everybody would walk around with a staff of smart people working for them. There is nothing better than working with people smarter than you, right?» said LeCun in his keynote address. According to him, everybody is going to be smarter because of that. «It's not just people like us in the tech community or in academia. It's going to be everyone. Everyone in India, even in rural areas, can ask questions to their AI assistants in their own language or for health issues, whatever. And it's a very different future that will become possible,» he added.

ChatGPT rival had been building for days.

U.S. President Trump is to speak to an international audience for the first time after returning into the White House with a speech and Q&A by video conference to the World Economic Forum’s annual event in Davos on Thursday

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Bengaluru: Notwithstanding some of last year’s tech disappointments, including the metaverse and Generative AI (GenAI), which fell short on scalability and returns, tech innovation continues at a scorching pace. GenAI is revolutionising content creation, while artificial intelligence (AI) agentic systems are advancing autonomous decision-making, reigniting debates around artificial general intelligence (AGI) and its ethical implications.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Last week, Yann LeCun, one of the godfathers of artificial intelligence (AI), visited India. Alongside, Nvidia chief Jensen Huang made his annual visit.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Meta Platforms Inc.’s chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, was in Davos for the annual World Economic Forum meeting in January when he met Nandan Nilekani—the Infosys co-founder at the vanguard of India’s many technological advances. That meeting, LeCun says, partly triggered his decision to visit India a third time.

The World Economic Forum says false and misleading information supercharged with cutting-edge artificial intelligence is the top immediate risk to the global economy

An early and influential thought experiment in the artificial intelligence doom literature is coming true—the paperclip maximizer scenario, except the world isn’t filling up with superfluous, unwanted paperclips. It’s filling up with predictions of AI doom. For the same reason Hollywood doesn’t make non-disaster movies in which planes aren’t hijacked and cruise ships don’t overturn and sink, an AI expert is condemned to invisibility who doesn’t emphasize the alleged “existential" risk.

Dozens of artificial intelligence (AI) experts, including the CEOs of OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic, recently signed an open statement published by the Center for AI Safety (CAIS). 

Mira Murati, the chief technology officer at OpenAI, believes government regulators should be “very involved” in developing safety standards for the deployment of advanced artificial intelligence models such as ChatGPT.