‹ BackHN Continuity

Thread

LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents

403 points · 765 comments · Anon84

  1. stratos123 · · focus · HN ↗
    LeCun also said back in 2022 that "if you train a machine, as powerful as it could be, your 'GPT-5000', on text", it will never be able to learn basic common-sense physics like that objects placed on tables will move along with them.
    1. AnotherGoodName · · focus · HN ↗
      LeCunn actually wanted to pivot Meta's entire AI strategy away from LLMs just before he was ousted. He was sure they had nowhere further to go and wanted to pivot to world model generation. The LLM models have since progressed massively.

      An analogy on LLMs is that you have a pretty clear straight highway ahead of you for some distance right now. Maybe that doesn't lead to AGI but it's clear there's progress to be made. For a big tech company it makes sense to push as hard and fast down that clear straight highway of LLMs asap.

      Meanwhile LeCunn wanted to turn off the road and go down an unproven track. I say this as someone working on world model generation right now (creating the ability to learn game world model and have it play the game <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tfmbot.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tfmbot.com for an example of my system pointed at a very complex board game). LeCunn wanted to pivot all of Meta into world model generation. It&#x27;s good as a side track research project but the entire pivot he wanted to do was madness.

      People are literally talking about an AI researcher who was fired for terrible direction here.

      1. frrrree · · focus · HN ↗
        And? He might still be right.

        Meta’s AI projects are still negative ROIC

Open on Hacker News to reply ↗

Unofficial Hacker News client; not affiliated with Y Combinator.