This kind of work is important because it's an attempt to make computers understand the real world. LLM/GenAI do not understand the real world, and the more we

This kind of work is important because it's an attempt to make computers understand the real world. LLM/GenAI do not understand the real world, and the more we run up against their limitations, the more the people and systems who depend on them will try to make the world more understandable to LLMs/GenAI. This means modifying your behavior so that you are more like a machine. LeCun is trying to make machines more human.