Comment on Meta’s star AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave for own startup

• XLE@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They could both be right… From a certain point of view.

  Within FAIR, LeCun has instead focused on developing world models that can truly plan and reason. Over the past year, though, Meta’s AI research groups have seen growing tension and mass layoffs as Zuckerberg has shifted the company’s AI strategy away from long-term research and toward the rapid deployment of commercial products.

  LeCun says current AI models are a dead end for progress. I think he’s correct.

  Zuckerberg appears to believe long term development of alternative models will be a bigger money drain than pushing current ones. I think he’s correct too.

  It looks like two guys arguing about which dead end to pursue.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    LeCun says current AI models are a dead end for progress.

    Sure. That’s easily proven, as the Pacific Rim tech companies are all running laps around the American models in terms of efficiency and output.

    It looks like two guys arguing about which dead end to pursue

    They’re both Snipe Hunting for the mythological AGI, because they’re each invested in the idea of a Singularity solving all their problems.

    LLMs have a set of niche useful applications, but these dudes are born chucking that advancement aside in pursuit of Digital God.

    With Roko’s Basilisk bumping around in their heads, I can’t help but detect a certain religious fervor, either. We really might have folks who believe they’ll be tortured for eternity if they don’t build AI Hellraiser first.

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