The "Godfather of AI" just trashed GPT-3

GPT-3, an advanced language-processing artificial intelligence algorithm developed by OpenAI, is really good at what it does -- churning out humanlike text. But Yann LeCun, the Chief AI Scientist at Facebook who's been called a "godfather of AI," trashed the algorithm in a Tuesday Facebook post, writing that "people have completely unrealistic expectations about what large-scale language models such as GPT-3 can do." LeCun cites a recent experiment by the medical AI firm NABLA, which found that GPT-3 is woefully inadequate for use in a healthcare setting because writing coherent sentences isn't the same as being able to reason or understand what it's saying. "It's entertaining, and perhaps mildly useful as a creative help," LeCun wrote. "But trying to build intelligent machines by scaling up language models is like [using] high-altitude airplanes to go to the Moon. You might beat altitude records, but going to the Moon will require a completely different approach."