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More like Yann had a long time to prove out his ideas and he did not deliver, meanwhile the industry passed Meta/Facebook by due to the sort of product-averse c

More like Yann had a long time to prove out his ideas and he did not deliver, meanwhile the industry passed Meta/Facebook by due to the sort of product-averse comfortable academic bubble that FAIR lived in. It wasn’t Zuckerberg getting swindled it was giving up on ever seeing Yann deliver anything other than LinkedIn posts and small scale tests. You do not want to bank on Yann for a big payoff. His ideas may or may not be right (joint predictive architectures, world modeling, etc), but you’d better not have him at the helm of something you expect to turn a profit on. Also almost everyone agrees the current architecture and paradigm, where you have a finite context (or a badly compressed one in Mamba / SSM), is not sufficient. That plus lots of other issues. That said scaling has delivered a LOT and it’s hard to argue against demonstrated progress.

labrador 10mo ago
As I said in my cousin comment, it depends on how you define AGI and ASI. Claude Opus 4.5 tells me "[Yann LeCun] thinks the phrase AGI should be retired and replaced by "human-level AI." which supports my cousin comment
CharlieDigital 10mo ago
> ...but you’d better not have him at the helm of something you expect to turn a profit on I don't understand this distinction. Is anyone (besides NVDA) turning a profit on inference at this point?
- aspenmartin 10mo ago
  I don’t know I assume not but everyone has a product that could easily be profitable, it would just be dumb to do it because you will lose out to everyone else running at a loss to capture market share. I just mean the guy seems to have an aversion to business sensibility generally. I think he’s really in it for the love of the research. He’s of course rightly lauded for everything he’s done, he’s extremely brilliant, and in person (at a distance) very kind and reasonable (something that is very different than his LinkedIn personality which is basically a daily pissing contest). But I would not give him one cent of investment personally.

labrador 10mo ago

As I said in my cousin comment, it depends on how you define AGI and ASI. Claude Opus 4.5 tells me "[Yann LeCun] thinks the phrase AGI should be retired and replaced by "human-level AI." which supports my cousin comment

CharlieDigital 10mo ago

> ...but you’d better not have him at the helm of something you expect to turn a profit on I don't understand this distinction. Is anyone (besides NVDA) turning a profit on inference at this point?

aspenmartin 10mo ago
I don’t know I assume not but everyone has a product that could easily be profitable, it would just be dumb to do it because you will lose out to everyone else running at a loss to capture market share. I just mean the guy seems to have an aversion to business sensibility generally. I think he’s really in it for the love of the research. He’s of course rightly lauded for everything he’s done, he’s extremely brilliant, and in person (at a distance) very kind and reasonable (something that is very different than his LinkedIn personality which is basically a daily pissing contest). But I would not give him one cent of investment personally.