US EditionAI Pioneer Yann Le Cun Is Quitting Meta over the Future of Intelligence
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AI pioneer Yann Le Cun is quitting Meta over the future of intelligence
Reports suggest Yann Le Cun, one of the "godfathers of AI", is leaving Meta after over a decade pioneering artificial intelligence research at Mark Zuckerberg's tech titan. Le Cun says he no longer believes that scaling up large language models of the kind that power ChatGPT will lead to superhuman intelligence. Instead, he's betting on "world models", AI that learns more like a baby than a bot.
The obsession of Yann LeCun (Soisy-sous-Montmorency, France, 65) with artificial intelligence was born as a child, after seeing 2001: a space odyssey, by Stanley Kubrick, where a supercomputer rebelled against the crew of a spaceship. “I discovered that in the 1950s and 60s there were already people training machines instead of programming them,” he told a panel last week on the occasion of the Queen Elizabeth engineering award: “I thought I was…
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