ClaimsYann LeCun

“Une interview compacte avec Konbini sur l'histoire (folle!) du Deep Learning et sur ma trajectoire.”

Yann LeCun, posting on X 28 September 2020 Post by @ylecun on X, 2020-09-28 (X)

Factual Their own work or organisation

Konbini published a short interview with Yann LeCun on the history of deep learning and his career.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?

What would count as true or false

True if Konbini published, on or shortly before 2020-09-28, a short-format interview with LeCun about the history of deep learning and his own career. Mostly true if it did but the format or emphasis differs a little (for example longer than compact, or focused mostly on one of the two topics). Mixed if Konbini published a LeCun interview but on substantially different topics. Mostly false if the interview was produced by a different outlet and only shared by Konbini. False if Konbini published no such interview.

Set before the research began.

Evidence (1)

  1. E1 On a parlé des robots de demain avec le chef de l’IA de Facebook Konbini · 29 June 2018

    “À l’heure où l’intelligence artificielle cherche de nouvelles pistes à explorer, nous avons rencontré Yann LeCun, directeur de la recherche en IA chez Facebook.”

Reasoning

The only evidence (E1) is a Konbini interview with Yann LeCun dated 2018-06-29, about future robots and AI research at Facebook. It does not show any compact interview on the history of deep learning and LeCun's career published on or shortly before 2020-09-28. The evidence therefore does not settle whether the claimed 2020 Konbini interview was published.

Cite this claim

Yann LeCun, “Konbini published a short interview with Yann LeCun on the history of deep learning and his career.” (said 28 September 2020). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_9918ebc6c874, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_9918ebc6c874

This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.

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