Why is Yann LeCun not Bullish on Generative AI?

After OpenAI launched Sora — a text-to-video AI model that converts text into a high-quality video up to a minute long. A video of Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun went viral in which he said at Davos 2024 that he believes: “The future of AI is not generative.”

LeCun sees that building an artificial intelligence model that simulates the world (a world model) will not be generative. Even if generative models, like ChatGPT and Gemini, achieve success in understanding text, video will be more complicated. Which puts him against Sora, a generative model whose creators concluded that: “Scaling video generation models is a promising path towards building general purpose simulators of the physical world.”

LeCun’s s latest remarks may surprise those who have formed their understanding of AI based on advancements in generative models like ChatGPT, Midjourney, Dall-E, and others.

Therefore, it could be interesting to understand why these impressive generative models aren’t the future of AI or the path to achieve a world model [artificial general intelligence (AGI) OR human-like intelligence OR advanced machine intelligence, call it whatever you want]

Why does LeCun Think so?

LeCun clarified his position in a post on X, saying that the generative models…