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Yann LeCun

Executive Chairman of AMI Labs; professor of computer science and related fields at NYU.

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Yann LeCun says he left Meta in January and was not fired

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LeCun clarifies that his autoregressive-error argument does not deny LLM usefulness

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AMI raises $1.03 billion to develop world models

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Yann LeCun defends his role as a scientist in replies to Musk and an X user

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Hinton and LeCun dispute AI risk warnings and restrictions on open research

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Report documents Galactica’s withdrawal and Yann LeCun’s defense of the demo

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Meta plans to shut Facebook’s face recognition system and delete templates

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Researchers discuss the trade-off between innate abilities and adaptability

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Gebru and hardmaru challenge LeCun’s framing of bias in face upsampling

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Marcus and Dietterich dispute how broadly deep learning should be defined

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Researchers debate whether brain learning resembles gradient optimization

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Yann LeCun corrects a claim about his timeline for human-level AI

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Chollet disputes LeCun’s account of Keras’s framework lineage

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ACM names Bengio, Hinton and LeCun recipients of the 2018 Turing Award

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Nisheeth Vishnoi challenges LeCun to prioritize preventing algorithmic harm

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Dietterich and Howard debate whether arXiv should host unfinished drafts

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LeCun challenges Marcus’s critique of deep learning

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