Alex Kantrowitz: This Professor Has a Path Toward Human-Level AI. It Isn’t LLMs.

Language models powering bots like ChatGPT cannot conceive the physical world. Will the next leap come from teaching AI sensory common sense? [Deepak Pathak]( [This Professor Has a Path Toward Human-Level AI. It Isn’t LLMs. | Commentary]( By Alex Kantrowitz In Deepak Pathak’s telling, nobody is building human-level artificial intelligence with language alone. You could train a large language model on billions of descriptions of gravity, but it would never conceptualize it, since it has never experienced the real world. Train it with every physics textbook on earth, and it still can’t visualize what happens when you drop a ball from your hand. With this natural limitation, it hallucinates. Pathak, a Carnegie Mellon professor and former Meta AI researcher, suggests that today’s leading AI research labs are perhaps too focused on building artificial general intelligence — AI with human-level thought and dexterity — via raw data and compute. To get to ‘AGI,’ he says, the technology has to go pre-verbal, and real world. AI going straight to language is like giving answers to a test without teaching the course. The solutions might tell you something, but your learning is limited. [Read More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [WrapPRO logo] Discover why entertainment executives and professionals rely on the WrapPRO platform daily for exclusive coverage, analysis, deeper reporting, and access to VIP events & screenings throughout the year. [Subscribe Today]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [YouTube]( TheWrap | 2034 Armacost Ave Los Angeles, CA 90025 [Preferences]( | [Unsubscribe]( [LiveIntent Logo]( [AdChoices Logo](