My favorite LeCun was when he was talking about LLMs understanding the real world. In the clip he essentially said "If I have a water bottle on this book and I push the book, the water bottle will move as well. A 3 year old can tell you this. But an LLM has no concept of this effect since it's not written explicitly in any books". The clip is then immediately followed by asking this exact question to a number of LLMs and giving exactly the correct answer.
From the interview, I see he still harps on about the limitations of LLMs and harps on about real world AI. I just can't take him seriously because pretty much everything he says is wrong and hypothetical. He still can't point to a single thing that an LLM fails at that require his so called "world models"
He'll just throw some random stuff out there like "we're not at level 5 driving yet" despite having hundreds of millions of miles driven autonomously every day. He just seems to keep holding on to his beliefs (much of them economic) and refuses to adjust his priors.
Fuck these guys for stripping away leverage from every worker in service of lining their own pockets. They would make comparisons to the automated loom making a class of workers obsolete, in order to compare their detractors to luddites. It's not a faster loom, it's a general-purpose brain replacement engine, and you aren't backwards for hating it.
LeCun, Altman, who gives a shit. AI researchers, CEOS, and publicists alike deserve the guillotine for what they're attempting to do to the average salaried employee, all in a country where one needs a good job to get healthcare.
It is striking that every AI corporation has a press arm. nebius.science is from Nebius Group, which is the non-Russian rebranded Yandex and sells data centers.
My favorite LeCun was when he was talking about LLMs understanding the real world. In the clip he essentially said "If I have a water bottle on this book and I push the book, the water bottle will move as well. A 3 year old can tell you this. But an LLM has no concept of this effect since it's not written explicitly in any books". The clip is then immediately followed by asking this exact question to a number of LLMs and giving exactly the correct answer.
From the interview, I see he still harps on about the limitations of LLMs and harps on about real world AI. I just can't take him seriously because pretty much everything he says is wrong and hypothetical. He still can't point to a single thing that an LLM fails at that require his so called "world models"
He'll just throw some random stuff out there like "we're not at level 5 driving yet" despite having hundreds of millions of miles driven autonomously every day. He just seems to keep holding on to his beliefs (much of them economic) and refuses to adjust his priors.
> "we're not at level 5 driving yet" despite having hundreds of millions of miles driven autonomously every day
Those are two very different things; you know that, right? You could even drive billions of miles, but that doesn't mean we have attained Level 5.
Level 5 definition: https://www.zf.com/products/en/cars/stories/6_levels_of_auto...
Fuck these guys for stripping away leverage from every worker in service of lining their own pockets. They would make comparisons to the automated loom making a class of workers obsolete, in order to compare their detractors to luddites. It's not a faster loom, it's a general-purpose brain replacement engine, and you aren't backwards for hating it.
LeCun, Altman, who gives a shit. AI researchers, CEOS, and publicists alike deserve the guillotine for what they're attempting to do to the average salaried employee, all in a country where one needs a good job to get healthcare.
It is striking that every AI corporation has a press arm. nebius.science is from Nebius Group, which is the non-Russian rebranded Yandex and sells data centers.