It didn’t require some sort of magical recipe for safety. It took decades of careful engineering and iterative refinements.
The process will be similar for intelligent systems. It will take years for them to get as smart as cats, and more years to get as smart as humans, let alone smarter (don’t confuse the superhuman knowledge accumulation and retrieval abilities of current LLMs with actual intelligence).
I mean cats care clever. Great take from a real builder of AI systems, sorry to notice that I came across this post nearly a year later. And guess what. AI is still only as smart as a fern.
Quote Citation: X (formerly Twitter), “Yann LeCun on X: “It seems to me that before “urgently figuring out how to control AI systems much smarter than us” we need to have the beginning of a hint of a design for a system smarter than a house cat. Such a sense of urgency reveals an extremely distorted view of reality. No wonder the more” / X”, 2024-05-17, https://x.com/ylecun/status/1791890883425570823