- Nick Clegg, Meta's president of global affairs, says AI language models are still "quite stupid."
- Clegg said some of the hype around AI overestimated its abilities.
Meta executive and former UK deputy prime minister Nick Clegg isn't sure how intelligent AI really is.
In an interview $4, Clegg, who is Meta's president of global affairs, said some of the hype around AI overestimated the tech's abilities.
"Hype has somewhat run ahead of the technology," he said, referring to AI language models. "In many ways, they're quite stupid."
Clegg said AI models such as $4 or Google's PaLM 2 fall "far short" of a level of intelligence that can think autonomously, despite $4.
Representatives for Meta did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment, made outside normal working hours.
The remarks came shortly after Meta announced it was $4, LLaMA 2. The move will allow the large language model to be used for free by researchers or commercial entities.
The announcement is part of a partnership with Microsoft, which is $4a company that has benefitted from a $4$4$4
Meta announced the news on Wednesday as part of Microsoft's Inspire event. In a $4, Microsoft called the relationship with Meta a "growing partnership."
Meta, which has been keen not to be left out of the AI boom, has been making the technology a $4. The company initially released a version of $4 in February and has touted other $4 that have not been released to the public.
Meta's foray into AI has been somewhat stalled by the company's lack of consumer-facing AI products, an aspect that appeared to make it $4.