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

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760 points MindBreaker2605 | 1 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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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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anthonybsd ◴[12 Nov 25 13:46 UTC] No.45900106{3}[source]▶
> Facebook can't have their top researcher work on risky things when there's surefire paths to success still available.

How did you determine that "surefire paths to success still available"? Most academics agree that LLMs (or LLMs alone) are not going to lead us to AGI. How are you so certain?

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1. tinco ◴[12 Nov 25 14:04 UTC] No.45900316{4}[source]▶
I don't believe we need more academic research to achieve AGI. The sort of applications that are solving the recent AGI challenges are just severely resource constrained AGI. The only difference between those systems and human intelligence are resources and incentives.

Not that I believe AGI is the measure of success, there's probably much more efficient ways to achieve company goals than simulating humans.