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

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760 points MindBreaker2605 | 2 comments | 12 Nov 25 07:25 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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sebmellen ◴[12 Nov 25 07:57 UTC] No.45897467[source]▶
Making LeCun report to Wang was the most boneheaded move imaginable. But… I suppose Zuckerberg knows what he wants, which is AI slopware and not truly groundbreaking foundation models.
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ACCount37 ◴[12 Nov 25 09:06 UTC] No.45897970[source]▶
That was obviously him getting sidelined. And it's easy to see why.

LLMs get results. None of the Yann LeCun's pet projects do. He had ample time to prove that his approach is promising, and he didn't.

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dude250711 ◴[12 Nov 25 09:23 UTC] No.45898088[source]▶
There is someone else at Facebook who's pet projects do not get results...
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1. ergocoder ◴[12 Nov 25 09:39 UTC] No.45898195{3}[source]▶
If you hire a house cleaner to clean your house, and the cleaner didn't do well, would you eject yourself out of the house? You would not. You would change to a new cleaner.
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2. psychoslave ◴[12 Nov 25 14:01 UTC] No.45900278[source]▶
But if we hire someone to deal on R&D to automate fully the house cleaning process, we might not necessarily expect the office to be maintained in clean state by the researchers themselves any time we enter the room.