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Yann is also known for constantly denigrating the abilities of LLMs and being comically wrong all the time, saying they can't do X only to be proven wrong immed
by stevenhuang 4y ago
Yann is also known for constantly denigrating the abilities of LLMs and being comically wrong all the time, saying they can't do X only to be proven wrong immediately after. He's pretty much a meme at this point.
He spent all his years at FB building ivory towers of mathematics attempting the analytical route for building AI systems only to be out done by the bitter lesson.
He's perpetually salty about the current state of LLMs, you can sense it from all the negative commentary on the matter if you look at his Twitter feed lol. For shame.
- cma 4y agoDidn't he hype the Galatica LLM?
- cubefox 4y agoHe also likes to talk about "human level AI". That's like expecting that the invention of the airplane passes through a stage of "human level flight". That didn't happen. And probably also not for AI. These systems will vastly outperform humans at more and more tasks, while being still sub-human at others. When the time comes that they surpass humans at all tasks, they will be vastly superhuman overall. And consequently much more dangerous than LeCun's "human level AI".
- andrewflnr 4y agoThe analogy is more apt with a reference to "a stage of bird-level flight". Humans can't fly at all, but in the same way birds and planes both fly, but humans and machines both process information about the world, just in very different ways and for different reasons. But yes, the notion of "human level AI" seems to be irrelevant at best.
- cubefox 4y agoAh yes, of course.
- beernet 4y agoAgreed. He had a luck shot with CNNs a long time ago and that's about it. Pretty sad to witness overall