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It reminds me of a blander Yann Lecun-like response where he responded on Twitter to a bunch of people saying Facebook ai could have done this and that, without
by dbish 4y ago
It reminds me of a blander Yann Lecun-like response where he responded on Twitter to a bunch of people saying Facebook ai could have done this and that, without acknowledging they were beat to the (shipping) punch and are now just reacting. Building a roadmap on what is in the zeitgeist and trying to pretend you’re winning a fight you don’t realize you already lost (at least the first battle) is not a way to capture mindshare imho
- hn_throwaway_99 4y agoWhat are you referring to? My overall impression of Yann Lecun is he feels quite hamstrung by all the extreme caution at Facebook (which obviously exists at Google too) of releasing anything that could produce content that is in any way objectionable to one of a million different subgroups.
- dbish 4y agoI like Yann and think he’s brilliant and also generally appreciate how he engages on Twitter. However, he spent a lot of time recently downplaying openai and I don’t see why that was needed other then to try to say FAIR is important, see one of the most recent of these related tweets https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1620533783702433792 https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1620533783702433792