Yann LeCun

YouTube video by Lex Clips Yann LeCun is a controversial visionary | Aravind Srinivas and Lex Fridman

Aravind Srinivas (Perplexity) tells Lex all the ways in which I was right against the prevalent ideas of the time: DL, ConvNets, energy-based models, SSL, the limitation of RL, and now the limitations of auto-regressive generative models including LLMs.
Thanks Aravind!

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US airlines have transported passengers for more than two light-years since the last plane crash Sometimes, the most important news is when something isn’t happening.

The total distance flown passengers on US airlines since the last crash is 2.3 light-years.
That's about 2.2*10^13 km. The last crash was on Feb 12, 2009.

ourworldindata.org/us-airline-t...

I didn't even realize the @ylecun account existed.
I must have created a long time ago and forgot.

Well, I'm here under @yann-lecun.
But there is another account @ylecun registered under the same email address.
I can't seem to log into @ylecun.
If I try and reset the password, it resets it for @yann-lecun.
I'm not sure what to do.
I suspect I need to just delete the @yann-lecun account....

Another thing to be thankful for: the use of AI to help improve climate change models.
From The Economist: www.economist.com/science-and-...
Free access on archive.org: archive.is/N9uaF

Topics: the history of AI, science and engineering, what is intelligence, GOFAI and neural nets, how does machine learning work, convolutional nets and transformers, self-supervised learning, LLMs and their limitations, why are JEPAs and why we need them, advice to students and entrepreneurs.

YouTube video by Nikhil Kamath WTF is Artificial Intelligence Really? | Yann LeCun x Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF Ep #4

Excellent podcast with Nikhil Kamath in which we cover a lot of topics related to AI and deep learning.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAgH...

WaPo Edito: Be thankful for the applications of AI in medicine.
More accurate detection of cancers (breast, prostate, skin, brain), faster diagnosis of strokes, sepsis, heart attacks, faster MRIs, full-body in 40 minutes.
Much more to come over the next years.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

YouTube video by ProductNation/iSPIRT Fireside chat with Yann LeCun hosted by Gaurav Aggarwal, iSPIRT

Video of my chat with Gaurav Agarwal on the future of AI, world models, planning/reasoning, the limitations of LLMs, AI as an empirical science, why neural net were shunned.
And how countries could jumpstart their AI ecosystem by creating top industry research labs.

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Auto-Regressive LLMs (auto-encoders with causal transformer architectures) and BERT-style models (denoising auto-encoders with transformer archis) are smashing demonstrations of the power of self-supervised (pre-)training.
But they only work for sequences of discrete symbols: language, proteins...

I first showed this "cake" slide in 2016.

“Sky Fortress” is a Ukrainian system of thousands of microphones, listening for the distinctive sounds of Russian low-flying UAVs such as the Shared.
They are networked to machine-learning processing nodes, that can send a truck with a .50 cal. gun to an intercept point.
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@ylecun.bsky.social
Hi there, bsky dwellers!

Here is Messier 51, AKA the Whirlpool Galaxy.

Shot from a New Jersey backyard with a Celestron EdgeHD 11", 0.7 reducer, ASI6200MM monochrome camera, off-axis guider.
131 subs, 300 seconds each.
HSO mapped to RGB.