Meta and OpenAI have teased new AI models that will be skilled at “reasoning and planning.”
Mark Zuckerberg’s firm — the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp — teased Llama 3 is due to start rolling out shortly,
“We are hard at work in figuring out how to get these models not just to talk, but actually to reason, to plan … to have memory,” Joelle Pineau, vice-president of AI research at Meta, said.
OpenAI — which received a billion-dollar investment from Microsoft — has also teased GPT-5 is on the way.
“We’re going to start to see AI that can take on more complex tasks in a more sophisticated way. I think we’re just starting to scratch the surface on the ability that these models have to reason,” OpenAI’s chief operating officer Brad Lightcap told the Financial Times.
These are all important components for creating AI with human capabilities.
However, Elon Musk previously raised concerns that “out of control” artificial intelligence advances could “pose profound risks to society and humanity.” He has since predicted that superhuman AI will outsmart us all by next year.
The billionaire businessman had previously suggested superintelligent robots would emerge in 2029, but now he’s warned it could be as soon as 2025.
“My guess is that we’ll have AI that is smarter than any one human probably around the end of next year,” Musk predicted. “Last year it was chip-constrained.”
“People could not get enough Nvidia chips. This year it’s transitioning to a voltage transformer supply. In a year or two, it’s just electricity supply,” he said during a livestreamed interview on his X platform.
