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

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765 points MindBreaker2605 | 2 comments | 12 Nov 25 07:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.458s | 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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gnaman ◴[12 Nov 25 08:02 UTC] No.45897498[source]▶
He is also not very interested in LLMs, and that seems to be Zuck's top priority.
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tinco ◴[12 Nov 25 08:05 UTC] No.45897523[source]▶
Yeah I think LeCun is underestimating the impact that LLM's and Diffusion models are going to have, even considering the huge impact they're already having. That's no problem as I'm sure whatever LeCun is working on is going to be amazing as well, but an enterprise like Facebook can't have their top researcher work on risky things when there's surefire paths to success still available.
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netdevphoenix ◴[12 Nov 25 10:47 UTC] No.45898615[source]▶
>the huge impact they're already having

In the software development world yes, outside of that, virtually none. Yes, you can transcribe a video call in Office, yes, but that's not ground breaking. I dare you to list 10 impacts on different fields, excluding tech and including at least half blue collar fields and at least half white collar fields , at different levels from the lowest to the highest in the company hierarchy, that LLM/Diffusion models are having. Impact here specifically means a significant reduction of costs or a significant increase of revenue. Go on

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1. olalonde ◴[12 Nov 25 11:26 UTC] No.45898854[source]▶
Personally, I find myself using LLMs more than Google now, even for non-development tasks. I think this shift is going to become the new normal (if it isn't already).
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2. antegamisou ◴[12 Nov 25 16:08 UTC] No.45901884[source]▶
And what's the end result? All one can see is just bigger representation of those who confidently subscribe to false information and become arrogant when their validity is questioned, as the LLM writing style has convinced them it's some sort of authority. Even people on this website are so misinformed to believe that ChatGPT has developed its own reasoning, despite it being at the core an advanced learning algorithm trained on a enormous amount of human generated data.

And let's not speak about those so deep into sloth that put it into use to deteriorate, and not augment as they claim to do, humane creative recreational activities.

https://archive.ph/fg7HE