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

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789 points MindBreaker2605 | 1 comments | 12 Nov 25 07:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.261s | 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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John7878781 ◴[12 Nov 25 17:12 UTC] No.45902719[source]▶
Is he wrong though? Do you really think LLMs are the path to AGI?
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1. fastball ◴[12 Nov 25 19:17 UTC] No.45904791[source]▶
I have no idea, but they're so good at some stuff we had to start using a new acronym (AGI) in order to compensate.

I certainly don't think LeCun has a better idea.