Everyone in India Can Ask AI Assistants Questions About Health Issues, Says Meta Official: Report

At Meta’s inaugural Build with AI Summit in India, the company’s chief AI scientist reportedly emphasised that artificial intelligence (AI) is set to enhance, not replace, human intelligence. “AI is not going to take over us; it is only going to amplify human intelligence,” said Yann LeCun, vice president and chief AI scientist at Meta, on Wednesday, according to a PTI report.

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AI as an Empowering Tool

Speaking on Wednesday, LeCun likened the future of AI to everyone having “a staff of smart people working for them,” underscoring that AI should be viewed as an empowering tool.

“AI assistants will eventually be smarter than us, but we should not feel threatened by that. We should feel empowered by it. It’s kind of like everyone would walk around with a staff of smart people working for them. There is nothing better than working with people smarter than you, right?” said LeCun in his keynote address, according to the report.

Ask AI Questions About Health Issues

LeCun noted the transformative potential of AI, especially in rural areas, where individuals will be able to interact with AI assistants in their native languages to access knowledge and healthcare information.

“It’s not just people like us in the tech community or in academia; it’s going to be everyone. Everyone in India, even in rural areas, can ask questions to their AI assistants in their own language or for health issues, whatever. And it’s a very different future that will become possible,” the report quoted LeCun as saying.

Importance of Open-Source AI

He also reportedly highlighted the growing significance of open-source AI, which he believes will become a shared infrastructure for all. “Because AI is going to become a common infrastructure that all of us can use in the future and share. We need AI systems in the future to become a kind of repository of all human knowledge,” LeCun stated, according to the report.