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Other AI leaders, like Meta’s chief artificial intelligence scientist Yann LeCun, have said tools released by the bigger tech companies have appeared to be less interesting and capable than ones released by smaller start-ups because they have more guardrails to prevent offensive or harmful outcomes.

But unlike the phenomenon that ChatGPT instantly became, with more than a million users in its first five days, Meta’s Blenderbot was boring, said Meta’s chief artificial intelligence scientist, Yann LeCun.

Doctor Y is a depressive artificial intelligence scientist who is obsessed with a bizarre project, an AI that anticipates human needs: “The program is turning out to work all too well, as the robots not only seem to anticipate when you want companionship or a beverage or the stereo turned on but quickly evolved to discover and emulate that which you most longed for — a desire perhaps unconscious, secret even from yourself — a desire which in most people turns out to be the recovery of the dead.”

On short notice, he has assembled a team of collaborators from various disciplines: the flutist and new-music impresario Claire Chase, the soprano Julia Bullock, the violinist Pekka Kuusisto, the composers Esperanza Spalding, Nico Muhly, Nicholas Britell, and Bryce Dessner, and the artificial intelligence scientist and roboticist Carol Reiley.

Facebook has over 2,000 New York employees, including Yann LeCun, its chief artificial intelligence scientist and a pioneer in the field.