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

> Swarms of these, acting in concert or with some hive mind, could be how we get to AGI.

There's absolutely no reason to think this. In fact, all of the evidence we have to this point suggests that scaling intelligence horizontally doesn't increase capabilities – you have to scale vertically.

Additionally, as it stands I'd argue there's foundational architectural advancements needed before artificial neutral networks can learn and reason at the same level (or better) than humans across a wide variety of tasks. I suspect when we solve this for LLMs the same techniques could be applied to world models. Fundamentally, the question to ask here is whether AGI is io dependant, and I see no reason to believe this to be the case – if someone removes your eyes and cuts off your hands they don't make you any less generally intelligent.