- Meta’s AI chief Yann LeCun mocked Elon Musk on X over his xAI recruitment drive.
- The spat follows xAI asserting it had raised $6 billion in Sequence B funding.
- LeCun criticized Musk’s AI predictions and claims of free speech absolutism.
Elon Musk is getting dragged by Meta’s AI chief on his personal platform.
Yann LeCun, Meta’s main AI scientist, poked enjoyable at Musk on X on Monday over his try and recruit AI employees for his $24 billion agency xAI.
The pair have been embroiled in a recent spat since Musk’s xAI introduced Sunday that it had raised $6 billion in a Sequence B funding spherical.
On Monday, Musk posted a name to tech employees to affix his firm: “Be a part of xAI in case you consider in our mission of understanding the universe, which requires maximally rigorous pursuit of the reality, with out regard to recognition or political correctness.”
LeCun, who has publicly feuded with Musk prior to now, was fast to answer Musk’s put up.
He wrote: “Be a part of xAI in case you can stand a boss who: – claims that what you’re engaged on can be solved subsequent yr (no stress). – claims that what you’re engaged on will kill everybody and should be stopped or paused (yay, trip for six months!). – claims to desire a ‘maximally rigorous pursuit of the reality’ however spews crazy-ass conspiracy theories on his personal social platform.”
LeCun was referring to Musk’s declare in April that synthetic basic intelligence will arrive by subsequent yr, a prediction that he doubled down on final week, in addition to his estimate of there being a 10-20% likelihood that AI might destroy humanity.
The “godfather of AI” additionally took a jab at Musk’s claims of being a free-speech absolutist and for sharing unverified claims on X.
The platform took down a put up that Musk re-shared in March as a result of it violated X’s personal guidelines.
The tech rivals have quarreled on-line since a minimum of 2017 and sometimes do not see eye-to-eye. LeCun snapped at Musk in March, and disputed his declare that AI “will most likely be smarter than any single human subsequent yr.”
xAI’s sole product up to now is a chatbot known as Grok, which was skilled utilizing information from Twitter, now known as X, together with Musk’s posts.
Elon Musk did not instantly reply to a request for remark from Enterprise Insider.
