Elon Musk vs Yann LeCun

Ever seen a friendly banter morph into a feud? Today, your AI Human, Amit Raja Naik, is about to tell you the story of a successful entrepreneur obsessed with building AGI, among other crazy things, and a godfather of AI who is obsessed with achieving cat-and-dog-level intelligence. 

Let’s dive right in—

The latter, Yann LeCun, is clearly winning the argument, or more accurately, has been successful in giving Elon Musk a reality check on his AGI goals, which he believes will be achieved next year, and how his companies are using existing technology developed by fellow researchers and scientists. 

Back to reality 

“Okay, maybe AGI is further away than I thought 😂,” said Elon Musk, replying to a user on X who shared the screenshot of an illogical discussion with ChatGPT.