What AI Really Can Do Now - C1

I’d be happy if by the time I retire, we have [artificial intelligence] systems that are as smart as a cat,” Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief AI scientist, Turing Award winner and one of the founding fathers of deep learning, tells Newsweek as part of an ongoing series of conversations about the future of AI, “and that retirement is coming fast, by the way, so I don’t have much time.”

LeCun sees the extraordinary promise of AI on the horizon. But so far we haven’t seen this degree of success. While venture capital and corporate investment pours billions of dollars into AI dream factories promising revolutionary transformations—whether it’s curing cancer or finally taming the email inbox— a stark reality persists: Most artificial intelligence initiatives collapse under their own ambitions.