Why AMI Labs’ Alexandre LeBrun won’t call his AI ‘AGI’ or ‘superintelligence’
While the rest of the AI industry races to label its work as “AGI” or “superintelligence,” Alexandre LeBrun, the CEO of Yann LeCun’sworld model startup, AMI Labs, avoids the terms altogether. Lebrun said in an interview with TechCrunch that the company doesn’t use terms like “AGI” or “superintelligence” at all.
“We never used the word AGI. And I just noticed that nobody is using it anymore; they switched to superintelligence,” he said. “Next time we’ll switch to something else.” He isn’t sold on the new label either. “There’s no good definition. What is superintelligence? I don’t know. It’s not a very useful word.”
It’s a pointed stance from a founder sitting at the center of AI’s newest race.
TechCrunch talked to LeBrun while he was in Seoul last week for The International Conference on Machine Learning, where he was scouting for local industrial partners, global companies and researchers. AMI...
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