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LeCun is famously something of an LLM skeptic, believing that the architecture is incapable of one day achieving human-levels of cognition, resulting in a so-called artificial general intelligence. He even advised up-and-coming programmers to not pursue LLMs at all, and instead work “on next-gen AI systems that lift the limitations of LLMs.” That makes him an outlier in the industry, as one of the driving promises fueling the boom is that the tech provides a direct line to creating AGI, if it isn’t already on the verge of doing so. With his focus on more esoteric forms of AI and his distaste of AI boosterism, LeCun was always an odd figure to be working at a titan like Meta. ...
Separate from LeCun’s research division, FAIR, it aims to create a “superintelligent” AI using LLM technology. LeCun, by contrast, is adamant about creating “world” models that are designed to understand the three-dimensional world by training them on a variety of physical data, rather than only language. LeCun says these advances could take decades, but Zuckerberg is clearly obsessed with market dominance in the immediate term. ...
Following the report of LeCun’s planned departure, Meta’s stock dipped by nearly another 3 percent.
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