Where will AI go next?

The next breakthrough will likely come from multimodal AI modelswhich are armed with multiple senses, such as the ability to use computer vision and audio to interpret things, Eck told me. The next big thing will be to figure out how to build language models into other AI models as they sense the world. This could, for example, help robots understand their surroundings through visual and language cues and voice commands. Generative AI is going to get better and better, LeCun said: "We're going to have better ways of specifying what we want out of them." Currently, the models react to prompts, but "right now, it's very difficult to control what the text generation system is going to do," he added.