The head of the research department on artificial intelligence at Facebook made surprising statements.
Artificial intelligence systems "have less judgment than rats," said Yann LeCun, head of the research on artificial intelligence at Facebook.
"The car does not have the capacity to learn new behaviors without going through their experience, unlike people and animals who, due to observation, are able to predict certain things before they encounter them," he explained.
Artificial intelligence, at the heart of numerous technological innovations such as the stand-alone vehicle, is also worrying about its ability to make decisions in the face of human beings. However, its possibilities remain limited in controlled environments, according to many experts.
"Learning through application (a 'machine learning' method used in particular by Google's Deepmind alpha system) works in video games, not in the real world," said Antoine Bordes, director of the research center in Paris on Facebook Artificial Intelligence.
"Let's take the example of self-driving, we can not allow a car to fall off a cliff for the algorithm to learn and progress," he explained.
Yann LeCun gave the example of the virtual assistant evoked a period of Facebook, the so-called "M" project.
"I asked people what they would ask for a virtual assistant," but their needs "go beyond what can be done today," he said. "There are many tasks that can not be automated at the current stage of research," he said.
