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

Really? From where I'm standing LeCun is a pompous researcher who had early success in his career, and has been capitalizing on that ever since. Have you read any of his papers from the last 20 years? 90% of his citations are to his own previous papers. From there, he missed the boat on LLMs and is now pretending everyone else is wrong so that he can feel better about it.

His research group have introduced some pretty impactful research and open source models.

https://ai.meta.com/research/

For the same reason I don't attribute those successes to Zuckerberg I don't attribute them to LeCun either.

Anyone that has worked at FB knows that LeCun does nothing all day expect post archive links to WP.

He comes off like the quintessential grey haired ego maniac. Inflexible old minds coupled with decades of self assurance that they are correct.

I cannot remember the quote, but it's something to the effect of "Listen closely to grey haired men when they talk about what is possible, and never listen when they talk about what is impossible."

i prefer to work under a pile of shit than zuck.

His JEPA family of models is a genuine step forward for SSL. Not the only approach, but a very insightful one. You’re very dismissive of his work.

Is he wrong though? Do you really think LLMs are the path to AGI?

I have no idea, but they're so good at some stuff we had to start using a new acronym (AGI) in order to compensate.

I certainly don't think LeCun has a better idea.