Investors bet $1 billion on AI pioneer Yann LeCun’s vision for the future of AI

LeCun has argued that language models alone will not produce AI capable of tackling the world’s biggest problems.

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Yann LeCun, one of the pioneers of AI and Meta’s former chief AI scientist, has long argued that large language models alone will not produce AI systems that outperform humans at most tasks. LeCun says today’s transformer-based large language models are useful enough to be applied in valuable ways, but he also believes they are unlikely to achieve the general or human-level intelligence........

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