🚨 ā€˜Code Red’: Five Ways A Worried Google Will Respond to OpenAI

Clark Boyd
10 min readJan 25

It’s always fun to watch a future case study unfold in real-time, isn’t it? Well, maybe not fun, but you know what I mean.

Meta’s Chief AI Scientist, Yann LeCun, has said that ā€œIn terms of underlying techniques, ChatGPT is not particularly innovative.ā€ He goes on to concede that it is perceived as being revolutionary because ā€œit’s nicely doneā€.

He’s not entirely incorrect. I have been speaking to smarter people recently about OpenAI and they share LeCun’s assessment.

Clark Boyd

Tech/business writer, lecturer (Columbia), and data analyst. >500k views on Medium. I used to be with it, but then they changed what ā€˜it’ was.