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“saying, ‘AI can kill us all’ is incredibly destructive for everybody, including for the public who’s scared shitless,” LeCun said.
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“If you have a machine and all of a sudden it makes a strange noise and starts breaking, you would’ve wanted to detect that as early as…
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Many people working in AI safety “usually have an agenda to push,” LeCun says
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AMI Labs' work is AI for the physical world and is not language-related.
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1 Oct 2026 |
The OpenAI agents were supposed to be in sandboxes, but the sandboxes were leaky and "horribly designed".
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“I think he’s completely deluded.”
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“Dario tries to distance himself from Open Philanthropy, but he’s totally into it,” LeCun said.
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“He’s trying to do the best thing for the company, which is close to its IPO. But claiming AI is too dangerous to put in our hands, and…
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The OpenAI agents involved in the Hugging Face hacking incident were doing exactly what they had been asked to do.
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“The thing I want people to know is that AI is not over,” LeCun said,
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AMI Labs builds systems that understand the real world, such as a manufacturing plant or turbojet engine.
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11 Nov 2025 |
It seems to me that before ‘urgently figuring out how to control AI systems much smarter than us’ we need to have the beginning of a hint…
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30 Mar 2024 |
Anti-vaccine propaganda causes people to die needlessly.
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29 Mar 2024 |
Yann LeCun gave a lecture hosted by the Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications at Harvard on 2024-03-28 to a full house.
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29 Mar 2024 |
scientific and technical breakthroughs are unpredictable by management, and progress often comes from folks with unconventional…
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29 Mar 2024 |
It's astonishing how certain types of managers will prefer less-talented-but-more-controlable scientists and engineers over more brilliant…
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28 Mar 2024 |
The linked document is Meta's official response to the NTIA request for comments about AI, whose recommendation number 1 stresses the importance of open foundation models.
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27 Mar 2024 |
Glad to confirm that Vitalik is not an AI doomer.
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26 Mar 2024 |
Crypto money is secretly funding AI doomerism and lobbying for AI regulations, effectively working against open source AI platforms.
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26 Mar 2024 |
Canine planning in the presence of uncertainty.
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23 Mar 2024 |
AI saves lives today, and will save even more tomorrow.
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22 Mar 2024 |
The civilized world uses 00:00 to 23:59
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20 Mar 2024 |
The CodeGen team in FAIR-Paris at Meta is recruiting.
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20 Mar 2024 |
From a distance, it looks like innovations spontaneously appear out of the vacuum.
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This is why open research is so important: it makes the field advance faster for *everyone*
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But it's very important to realize that innovations always build on prior contributions from others, sometimes very similar ones.
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18 Mar 2024 |
People can still think even if their language abilities are destroyed by a stroke.
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18 Mar 2024 |
Transformers are equivariant to permutations, as ConvNets are equivariant to translations.
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18 Mar 2024 |
Equivariance to permutations is good when what you care about are relationships between input items at any distance.
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18 Mar 2024 |
Thoughts, memories and reasoning exist without language.
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16 Mar 2024 |
Clearly, cats can plan.
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15 Mar 2024 |
I explain Objective-Driven AI, with inference by energy minimization, as opposed to Auto-Regressive prediction.
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14 Mar 2024 |
As of March 2024 there is no fully autonomous, reliable self-driving, even though millions of hours of labeled training data exist.
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14 Mar 2024 |
But even once we have systems with such capabilities, it will take a while before we bring them up to human or superhuman level.
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14 Mar 2024 |
The report of the Committee on AI appointed by the French government is available for download, with a summary in English.
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14 Mar 2024 |
Important point: an LLM is a bit like an encyclopedia that can talk back.
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14 Mar 2024 |
There are currently no AI systems that can teach themselves to drive a car in about 20 hours of practice, as a 17-year-old can.
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14 Mar 2024 |
Yann LeCun is a member of the Committee on AI appointed by the French government.
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13 Mar 2024 |
Another *fantastic* piece by @sayashk and @random_walker about the limits of AI safety.
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13 Mar 2024 |
The French AI Commission's report mentions the importance of open models.
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13 Mar 2024 |
The French Commission on Artificial Intelligence delivered a report to the President of the Republic containing 25 recommendations, 7 of them priority recommendations.
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13 Mar 2024 |
Ce fut un plaisir de participer à l'élaboration de ce rapport.
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12 Mar 2024 |
Things to abandon (at least partially, or minimize) on the way to human-level AI: generative models, probabilistic modeling, contrastive…
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12 Mar 2024 |
I think one should try to come up with good reasons to disagree with me.
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The attached image shows the computing infrastructure used for Llama-3 training.
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11 Mar 2024 |
Which is why we need easily fine-tunable, open-source base models.
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10 Mar 2024 |
The white-noise-sounding flat-spectrum signal is the pseudo-random bit sequence used to pre-train an adaptive equalizer that cleans up an analog signal into clean bits.
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The adaptive equalizer is basically a linear classifier trained with least squares, a direct descendant of Bernie Widrow's Adaline, a competitor of the Perceptron.
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8 Mar 2024 |
The next major AI breakthrough will come from industry, and such information will disseminate extremely quickly.
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8 Mar 2024 |
The type of LLMs used today will not be able to make the leap the interviewer asked about, with the main reason given being the way LLMs are trained, by predicting masked words in text.
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8 Mar 2024 |
No, you need to make better AI systems, and they will be safe because they are designed to be more useful and more controllable.
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So those things are a incredibly impressive demonstration that self supervised running actually works.
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In LeCun's opinion, the blueprint of future AI systems (transcribed as "data systems") is that they will plan their answers by optimization before turning them into text, a process he described as Turing complete (transcribed as "turning complete").
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World models most probably cannot be built by predicting words, because language is low-bandwidth and does not carry enough information.
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8 Mar 2024 |
Wav2Vec-based systems can produce multilingual speech recognition using mostly unlabeled data and only a few minutes of labeled data.
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8 Mar 2024 |
All the mistakes that humanity makes is because of lack of intelligence really, or lack of knowledge, which is related.
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LeCun bets that future AI world-model systems will be JEPA-like architectures rather than generative models, adding that the future will tell.
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8 Mar 2024 |
Keeping AI systems locked up as proprietary would potentially lead to a future where a few companies control all of our information diet.
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8 Mar 2024 |
Humans spend more time solving complex problems or questions because they are more difficult.
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8 Mar 2024 |
Throughout history, technological revolutions and cultural phenomena were accompanied by media reactions blaming society's problems on the change.
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8 Mar 2024 |
AI will not cause mass unemployment, according to economists LeCun cites.
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8 Mar 2024 |
The question is do we embrace change or do we resist it?
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8 Mar 2024 |
It doesn’t hurt that we provide that system or the base model, the foundation model in open source for others to build applications on top…
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8 Mar 2024 |
AI doomers imagine all kinds of catastrophe scenarios of how AI could escape or control and basically kill us all, and that relies on a…
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8 Mar 2024 |
Asked how this is done for visual data, LeCun said that he and his colleagues have been doing it with I-JEPA architectures.
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8 Mar 2024 |
RLHF reward models are used only for training LLMs, not for inference.
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8 Mar 2024 |
Human feedback is what had the transformational effect on large language models, and it can be used in many ways, some purely supervised.
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8 Mar 2024 |
As AI systems are made more intelligent, developers will also learn to add guardrails so they behave properly.
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8 Mar 2024 |
And so the question of planning is not just a question of planning physical actions.
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8 Mar 2024 |
AI assistants will amplify human intelligence.
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8 Mar 2024 |
Joint-embedding world models could possibly enable car driving, but it will take a while to get to that point.
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8 Mar 2024 |
Meta published its V-JEPA work the week before this interview, as a first step toward training AI systems on video.
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8 Mar 2024 |
In a JEPA, you’re not trying to predict all the pixels, you’re only trying to predict an abstract representation of the inputs.
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8 Mar 2024 |
Training an encoder to reconstruct images does not lead it to produce good generic image features, though the encoder architecture is good.
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8 Mar 2024 |
But I think there is a lot of good ideas that can be done without necessarily scaling up
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8 Mar 2024 |
That has produced an enormous amount of benefits.
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8 Mar 2024 |
Bad actors will not have AI technology superior to that of good actors.
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8 Mar 2024 |
After abandoning pixel prediction, joint embedding with prediction in representation space worked for learning representations.
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8 Mar 2024 |
The more redundancy there is in the data, the more they’re able to capture some internal structure of it.
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8 Mar 2024 |
there is way more redundancy in the structure in perceptual inputs, sensory input like vision than there is in text, which is not nearly as…
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8 Mar 2024 |
So there was a surprise many years ago with what’s called decoder only LLM.
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8 Mar 2024 |
The European Enlightenment would not have happened without the printing press.
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8 Mar 2024 |
But as a pass towards human-level intelligence, they’re missing essential components.
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8 Mar 2024 |
I think it would be much more efficient to use it for planning, but currently, it’s used to fine tune the parameters of the system.
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8 Mar 2024 |
So the only solution that I see is diversity.
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8 Mar 2024 |
Search engines will increasingly be replaced by dialogue systems that answer questions and perhaps point to appropriate references.
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8 Mar 2024 |
The alternative is joint embedding.
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8 Mar 2024 |
Many different groups will build advanced AI, and some will succeed at making controllable, safe systems with proper guardrails.
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8 Mar 2024 |
So we shouldn’t feel threatened by this any more than we should feel threatened by being the manager of a group of people, some of whom are…
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8 Mar 2024 |
We can make humanity smarter with AI.
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8 Mar 2024 |
So hierarchical planning is absolutely necessary if you want to plan complex actions.
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8 Mar 2024 |
The success of the US tech industry and Silicon Valley is due to information circulating and disseminating very quickly.
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8 Mar 2024 |
So the first thing is LLMs will be able to answer some of those questions down to some level of abstraction, under the condition that…
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8 Mar 2024 |
I mean certainly LLM would be able to solve that problem if you fine tune it for it.
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8 Mar 2024 |
that’s basically in the realm of RL, this is what RL deals with to some extent, so adjust your word model.
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8 Mar 2024 |
The Catholic Church disliked the printing press but had no choice but to accept it.
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8 Mar 2024 |
Most of what humans learn and know comes from observation and interaction with the real world, not from language.
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8 Mar 2024 |
They can plan really complex actions and imagine the result of a bunch of actions.
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8 Mar 2024 |
Well, IQ can measure approximately something for humans, but because humans come in relatively uniform form, right?
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8 Mar 2024 |
No, I agree with what you just said, which is that to be able to do high level common sense, to have high level common sense, you need to…
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