Facebook’s head of AI slams Tesla CEO Elon Musk over AGI technology

Facebook’ s Head of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has slammed Tesla CEO Elon Musk over his understating of AI, saying he has no idea about the Artificial general intelligence (AGI) technology.
Reacting to a CNBC report that cited research community and CEOs as saying that Musk’s confidence is misplaced as far as AI is concerned, Jerome Pesenti who is Head of AI at Facebook said Musk is distracting people from real issues.
“I believe a lot of people in the AI community would be ok saying it publicly. @elonmusk has no idea what he is talking about when he talks about AI. There is no such thing as AGI and we are nowhere near matching human intelligence,” tweeted Pesenti.
“My point is that AGI is a meaningless concept, don’t even talk about it. There are a lot of risks related to AI, he talks about the wrong ones (machines taking over) distracting us from the real issues (eg fairness),” Pesenti continued.