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Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'

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760 points MindBreaker2605 | 9 comments | 12 Nov 25 07:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.025s | source | bottom
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1zael ◴[12 Nov 25 08:02 UTC] No.45897500[source]▶
"These models aim to replicate human reasoning and understanding of the physical world, a project LeCun has said could take a decade to mature."

What an insane time horizon to define success. I suppose he easily can raise enough capital for that kind of runway.

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1. lolive ◴[12 Nov 25 08:05 UTC] No.45897519[source]▶
That guy has survived the AI winter. He can wait 10 years for yet another breakthrough. [but the market can’t]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter

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2. DaSHacka ◴[12 Nov 25 08:16 UTC] No.45897603[source]▶
We're at most in an "AI Autumn" right now. The real Winter is yet to come.
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3. asadotzler ◴[12 Nov 25 08:27 UTC] No.45897684[source]▶
We have already been through winter.Ffor those of us old enough to remember, the OP was making a very clear statement.
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4. lolive ◴[12 Nov 25 08:47 UTC] No.45897831[source]▶
Java Spring.

Google summer.

AI autumn.

Nuclear winter.

5. smartmic ◴[12 Nov 25 09:14 UTC] No.45898030{3}[source]▶
Winter is a cyclical concept, just like all the other seasons. It will be no different here; the pendulum swings back and forth. The unknown factor is the length of the cycle.
6. rsynnott ◴[12 Nov 25 09:58 UTC] No.45898312[source]▶
I assume they’re referring to the previous one.
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7. lolive ◴[12 Nov 25 11:03 UTC] No.45898709{3}[source]▶
I still have to understand why you think another AI winter is coming. Everyyyybody is using it, everybody is racing to invent the next big thing. What could go wrong? [apart from a market crash, more related to financial bubble than technical barriers]
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8. rsynnott ◴[12 Nov 25 13:26 UTC] No.45899856{4}[source]▶
> apart from a market crash, more related to financial bubble than technical barriers

_That is what an AI winter is_.

Like, if you look at the previous ones, it's a cycle of over-hype, over-promising, funding collapse after the ridiculous over-promising does not materialise. But the tech tends to hang around. Voice recognition did not change the world in the 90s, but neither did it entirely vanish once it was realised that there had been over-promising, say.

9. KalMann ◴[12 Nov 25 18:55 UTC] No.45904321[source]▶
This seems like a strange comment to make since the above comment in no way suggests that we are currently in an AI winter.