2024 Ding Shum Lecture: Yann Lecun: Objective-Driven AI: Towards AI systems that can learn, remember, reason, and plan
Current AI architectures like Large Language Models have limitations. Proposed modular cognitive architecture features a predictive world model for efficient learning, reasoning, and planning. [ more ]
OpenAI's Video-Generating AI Is "Doomed to Failure," Says Meta's Top AI Scientist
Text-to-video AI model Sora by OpenAI is criticized by Yann LeCun for inefficiency and inability to create a 'world simulator'.
LeCun believes generative models, like Sora, are inefficient in dealing with uncertainties and overly detailed, hindering true understanding of the world. [ more ]
Honouring Yann LeCun: Benjamin Grewe Speaks at the 2023 Global Swiss AI Award Ceremony
Yann LeCun, VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta, has been awarded the Global Swiss AI Award for 2023.
The Global Swiss AI Award honors individuals who have made significant impacts in the field of AI on a global scale within the past three years. [ more ]
Meta's AI chief doesn't think AI super intelligence is coming anytime soon, and is skeptical on quantum computing
Yann LeCun believes current AI systems are decades away from reaching sentience and common sense capabilities.
LeCun believes the technology industry's current focus on language models and text data will not be enough to create advanced human-like AI systems. [ more ]