An interview with Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun on his critics and why today's most popular approaches to AI won't lead to human-level machine intelligence
ZDNet Tiernan Ray
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@suhail
@suhail
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I found Yann LeCun's analysis of autonomous driving fascinating: https://twitter.com/...
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@intuitmachine
Carlos E. Perez
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Oh, it's unfair for him to dismiss @GaryMarcus as not being an AI person. That's just like Descartes dismissing Fermat or Newton dismissing Leibniz because they were not formally schooled in mathematics. Why should DL people have a monopoly on the conversation?
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@garymarcus
Gary Marcus
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What's going on with @MetaAI's Chief AI Scientist @ylecun? And how new are his “new” ideas? [article subheading: “spoiler alert: not very"]
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@garymarcus
Gary Marcus
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@ZDNET @TiernanRayTech This libels me, by claiming—falsely—that I have not published any AI work in peer review journals & at same time the substance is virtually identical to my 2012 & 2018 papers, not in any way original to @yLeCun; a thread summarizing some of the many similar…
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@7innovator
Simon Erickson
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“The purely statistical approach is intractable. It's too much to ask for a world model to be completely probabilistic.” “Ultimately, there's going to be a more satisfying solution that do a better job of understanding the way the world works.” https://www.zdnet.com/...
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@dmonett
Dagmar Monett
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This part of the interview with LeCun is so painful, so olympically painful and abominable: (My next course with ~80 new, first-year #ComputerScience students starts in 3 weeks. I'll be very explicit and teach them what *not* to do in academic discourse or writing) https://twitte…
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@intuitmachine
Carlos E. Perez
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I find it curious that LeCun leans toward “energy-based” architectures, yet he cites Lagrangians as the basis of Deep Learning. Aren't energy-based formulations a Hamiltonian perspective and not Lagrangian? @ylecun https://www.zdnet.com/...
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@dmonett
Dagmar Monett
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I found explanations for LeCun's behavior in @Eric_Sadin's “The Silicolonization of the World” (2016/2018). See pic & translation. @ZDNET's interview only reinforces this and leaves him in a terrible position. The audacity... How LeCun refers to other academics and their work 😳 h…
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@tiernanraytech
Tiernan Ray
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If you simply believe today's deep learning will scale to infinity, you would do well to consider the sage observations of a pioneer, Yann LeCun. // @ylecun // #AI #deeplearning #machinelearning #artificialintelligence https://twitter.com/...
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@intuitmachine
Carlos E. Perez
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LeCun throws in the towel with current approaches. https://twitter.com/...
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@mustafasuleymn
Mustafa Suleyman
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Technologies almost always get invented by multiple people around the same time. AI is no different. But it does make it feel all the more inevitable.
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@ylecun
Yann LeCun
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@mustafasuleymn I am always surprised by the incomprehensibly large number of people who believe the myth that human-level AI will be achieved through one key idea, by one group of people, in one lab/company, that will stay ahead of the pack for years. (and make trillions). It's …
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@intuitmachine
Carlos E. Perez
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In summary, it's a good interview where you can get a glimpse of @ylecun thinking. I'm agreement with many of his ideas, except for the criticism of the language models. I suspect he hasn't read about “code-duality” yet.
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@garymarcus
Gary Marcus
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just wow. @MetaAI's @ylecun retrenches to steals pretty much everything I have projected about limits of deep learning from last decade and then says I have never done anything. that is quite the market repositioning. https://twitter.com/...
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@benedictevans
Benedict Evans
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@ylecun @mustafasuleymn This is a bit like the idea from the past that space travel would be invented by one solitary genius building a complete re-usable rocket ship by himself
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@qhardy
Quentin Hardy
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Also: There's no evidence that human-level AI will ever exist. https://twitter.com/...
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@jon_y_huang
@jon_y_huang
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It's fascinating to hear a father of AI continue to hammer on the need for better observational learning (rather than only experiment) as the key to progress, which of course mirrors debates in biomedicine. The ladder to the moon analogy is great. https://www.zdnet.com/...