ClaimsYann LeCun

“I certainly have a lot of experience with this, of having people working with me who are smarter than me.”

Yann LeCun, Meta chief AI scientist 8 March 2024 Transcript for Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI (Lex Fridman Podcast)

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Yann LeCun has had much experience working with people who are smarter than him.

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Depends on subjective judgment of who is 'smarter', so it is too vague to test.

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Yann LeCun, “Yann LeCun has had much experience working with people who are smarter than him.” (said 8 March 2024). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_4eb0317e4f56, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_4eb0317e4f56

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