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Comment by ml-anon

15 hours ago

Zuck is definitely an idiot and MSL is an expensive joke, but LeCun hasn’t been relevant in a decade at this point.

No doubt his pitch deck will be the same garbage slides he’s been peddling in every talk since the 2010’s.

LeCun has already proved himself and made his mark and is now in a lucky position where he can focus on very long term goals that won't pay off for a long time (or ever). I feel like that is the best path someone like him could take.

  • Yes, he did a very important thing many decades ago. He hasn't had a good or impactful idea since convnets.

I have no idea why this fair assessment of the status quo is being downvoted.

LeCun hasn't produced anything noteworthy in the past decade.

He uses the same slides in all of his presentations.

LLMs, while not yet AGI, have shown tremendous progress, and are actually useful for 99% of use cases for the average person.

The remaining 1% is for deep research into the deep unknown (physics, chemistry, genetics, diseases, the nature of intelligence itself), an area in which they falter.

Yeah such an idiot, the youngest ever self made billionaire at 23, created a multi trillion dollar company from scratch in only 20 years.

  • Cool, and how many billions has he flushed down the toiled for his failed Metaverse and currently failing AI attempts? Rich doesn't mean smart, you realise this right?