Yann LeCun
yann keeps betting that deep learning's next frontier lives in unsupervised learning, not the scaling race everyone else joined
Yann André Le Cun ( lə-KUN; French: [ləkœ̃]; usually spelled LeCun; born 8 July 1960) is a French-American computer scientist working in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, robotics and image compression. He is the Jacob T. Schwartz Professor of Computer Science at the Courant I… wikipedia →
12-month trajectory
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ai safety and slowdown debate
- Yann LeCun opposes slowing AI, calls Anthropic's stance 'anti-enlightenment' - TechGig
- AI safety or control? Yann LeCun challenges Anthropic over calls to slow down development - Firstpost
- Godfather of AI Yann LeCun opposes Dario Amodei’s call of slowing down AI development, says ‘Anthropic is - The Times of India
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world models and llm critique
- Yann LeCun in Seoul: Large Language Models Are Not the Future of AI—World Models Are the Breakthrough - BigGo Finance
- Against Agent AI & RSI: Yann LeCun’s Groundbreaking New Model Challenges All Current Mainstream AI Narratives - 36Kr
- Yann LeCun: "AI Doomsday Scenarios Are Science Fiction… World Models Will Drive the Next Revolution" - BigGo Finance
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ai doomsday and extinction fears
- Yann LeCun AI — Why AI Is Not Smart Enough to Threaten Humanity - The Korea Daily
- AI Doomsday — Yann LeCun Dismisses Humanity Threat Fears - The Korea Daily
- Yann LeCun: "AI Doomsday Scenarios Are Science Fiction… World Models Will Drive the Next Revolution" - BigGo Finance
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venture capital and startups
- AI ‘godfather’ raises S$1.3 billion for startup with Singapore as a key base - Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB)
- A Turing Award winner raises $1 billion to prove the AI industry has taken a wrong turn - Insight News
- Yann LeCun joins new $100M AI fund, weeks after his last one lasted 8 hours - Tech Funding News
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criticism of competitors
- Google CEO Sundar Pichai, 'Godfather of AI' Yann LeCun reply to Elon Musk post that says ‘future has flyi - The Times of India
- Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Meta’s former chief AI scientist Yann LeCun reply to Elon Musk post that says ‘ - The Times of India
- AI Pioneers Urge Global Watchdog for Cyber-Capable Models - BigGo Finance
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ai applications and medicine
- Moderna's Bob Langer and AMI's Yann LeCun Cellular Intelligence's board, bringing AI into medicine - Fortune
- Yann LeCun, Bob Langer, Jens Nielsen and Fabian Theis Join Cellular Intelligence Scientific Advisory Board - Morningstar
- Yann LeCun, Bob Langer, Jens Nielsen and Fabian Theis Join Cellular Intelligence Scientific Advisory Board - Yahoo Finance
ai industry warnings
recognition and influence
international ai development
lecun's advisory roles
- Moderna's Bob Langer and AMI's Yann LeCun Cellular Intelligence's board, bringing AI into medicine - Fortune
- Yann LeCun, Bob Langer, Jens Nielsen and Fabian Theis Join Cellular Intelligence Scientific Advisory Board - Morningstar
- Yann LeCun, Bob Langer, Jens Nielsen and Fabian Theis Join Cellular Intelligence Scientific Advisory Board - Yahoo Finance
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