@rohanpaul_ai: Yann LeCun's latest talk at ETH Zürich "You should not work on LLM. At least if you're in academia, you should absolute…
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In a talk at ETH Zürich, Yann LeCun argued that academics should not work on LLMs or generative models, saying there is nothing new academia can bring to the table and that real progress lies in grounded, physical AI — a stance he admits makes him unpopular in Silicon Valley.
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Yann LeCun’s latest talk at ETH Zürich
“You should not work on LLM. At least if you’re in academia, you should absolutely not work on LLMs. There is nothing you can bring to the table.
If you’re interested in making real progress in AI, in sort of grounded AI for the real world, if you want physical AI, don’t work on LLMs, and don’t work on generative models either.
So, as you can probably guess, this does not make me very popular in Silicon Valley.“
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