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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Dan Milmo Global technology editor

AI ‘godfather’ predicts another revolution in the tech in next five years

The Queen Elizabeth prizefor engineering winners (from left) Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun and Bill Dally.
The Queen Elizabeth prize for engineering winners (from left) Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun and Bill Dally. Photograph: Jason Alden

One of the “godfathers” of modern artificial intelligence has predicted a further revolution in the technology by the end of the decade, and says current systems are too limited to create domestic robots and fully automated cars.

Yann LeCun, the chief AI scientist at Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, said new breakthroughs are needed in order for the systems to understand and interact with the physical world.

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