Comment by 1zael
15 hours ago
"These models aim to replicate human reasoning and understanding of the physical world, a project LeCun has said could take a decade to mature."
What an insane time horizon to define success. I suppose he easily can raise enough capital for that kind of runway.
That guy has survived the AI winter. He can wait 10 years for yet another breakthrough. [but the market can’t]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
We're at most in an "AI Autumn" right now. The real Winter is yet to come.
We have already been through winter.Ffor those of us old enough to remember, the OP was making a very clear statement.
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This seems like a strange comment to make since the above comment in no way suggests that we are currently in an AI winter.
Java Spring.
Google summer.
AI autumn.
Nuclear winter.
I assume they’re referring to the previous one.
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A pretty short time horizon for actual research. Interesting to see it combined with the SV/VC world, though.
I suspect he sees a lot of scattered pieces of fundamental research outside of LLM's that he thinks could be integrated for a core within a year, the 10 years is to temper investors (that he can buy leeway for with his record) and fine tune and work out the kinks when actually integrating everything that might not have some obvious issues.
Zuck is a business guy, understandable that this isn't going to fly with him
10 years is nothing.
Are you some kind of timeless being? it's a meaningful fraction of a human life
In the context of technology, not the context of one life.
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