- Yann LeCun, Meta’s AI chief, mocked Elon Musk on X over his xAI recruitment drive.
- This row follows XAI’s announcement that it had raised $6 billion in Series B funding.
- LeCun criticized Musk’s predictions about AI and claims of free speech absolutism.
Elon Musk lets himself be coached by Meta’s AI chief on his own platform.
Yann LeCun, Meta’s lead AI scientist, mocked Musk on X on Monday over his attempt to recruit AI workers for his $24 billion xAI company.
The two have been embroiled in a renewed feud since Musk’s xAI announced Sunday that it had raised $6 billion in a Series B funding round.
On Monday, Musk issued a call to tech workers to join his company: “Join xAI if you believe in our mission to understand the universe, which requires the most rigorous pursuit of truth, regardless of popularity or political correctness. »
LeCun, who has publicly feuded with Musk in the past, was quick to respond to Musk’s post.
He wrote: “Join xAI if you can stand a boss who: – claims that what you are working on will be solved next year (no pressure). – claims that what you’re working on is going to kill everyone and needs to be stopped or paused (yeah, vacation for 6 months!). – claims to want the “most rigorous search for truth possible” but spews crazy conspiracy theories on its own social platform.
LeCun was referring to Musk’s assertion in April that artificial general intelligence would arrive next year, a prediction he doubled down on last week, as well as his estimate that there would be 10 to 20 percent. chances that AI could destroy humanity.
The “Godfather of AI” also criticized Musk’s claims that he was a free speech absolutist and for sharing unverified claims about X.
The platform removed a post that Musk re-shared in March because it violated X’s own rules.
The tech rivals have been feuding online since at least 2017 and often disagree. LeCun criticized Musk in March and disputed his assertion that AI “will probably be smarter than any human next year.”
xAI’s only product so far is a chatbot called Grok, which was trained using data from Twitter, now called X, including Musk’s posts.
Elon Musk did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.
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