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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: 0.212s | source
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fxtentacle ◴[12 Nov 25 08:19 UTC] No.45897622[source]▶
Working under LeCun but outside of Zuckerberg's sphere of influence sure sounds like a dream job.
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fastball ◴[12 Nov 25 08:41 UTC] No.45897790[source]▶
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.
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1. Workaccount2 ◴[12 Nov 25 15:02 UTC] No.45901089[source]▶
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."