@ylecun
Founder/Chair, AMI Labs; Professor, NYU; Partner, 224 Ventures; Ex-Chief AI Scientist, Meta. Researcher in AI, ML, Robotics, etc. ACM Turing Award Laureate.
@elonmusk @EricTopol And your shameful campaign against Anthony Fauci makes you even more guilty. Fauci helped save millions of lives.
Only in America. Tired of winning?
Reginald@ginald87·Giving birth in Europe vs in America 😂
When you work on research (particularly on long-term research), you have to accept the fact that corporate management, who is often interested in short-term impact, may think you are wasting your time and company resources. But it very much depends what you objectives and your horizon is. - If your goal is keeping up with the current AI product race, then you might think that long-term bets are a waste. - If your goal is "AGI" (whatever you mean by that) then your horizon is likely longer and your modus operandi is very different. - However, If you think "AGI is just around the corner through LLM scaling", then you might think working on world models and other new AI concepts is a waste. - But if you know that AGI requires a few more conceptual advances (as Demis and I do), you pick a role that maximizes progress towards that goal. That role is necessarily less connected with products, less connected with management, and more connected with research. - I can't speak for Demis, but in my case, I've always been supportive of high-quality work on LLMs and impressed by the results. My personal interest was to advance towards human-level AI, and I never thought LLMs were the ticket. But I always thought LLMs were incredibly useful as a technology, and eventually as the centerpieces of a family of products. As a high-level IC (not a manager), I would not have had the influence or power to stifle work on LLM even if I had wanted to (which I had not).
@willdepue Relevant talk: youtube.com/watch?v=72Xj8k…
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@Viktoria5z @HaiyuWu1 This has more to do with the amount of data curation, engineering/tweaking, and compute that went into it than with the intrinsic quality of the methods.
@nicochristie Also, to first approximation, every computer in the world that runs an operating system runs Linux, precisely because it's open source. The entire software infrastructure of the mobile communication network is open source.
Whatever your definition of AGI: 1. It's emergence will not be a singular event, 2. Assuming folks agree on some sort threshold (which is unlikely), Anthropic is unlikely to be the one crossing it first. 3. If some company crosses that threshold first, 5 others will be crossing it within 6 months. 4. Whoever crosses it will rely on open research / open source that does not yet exist.
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@Holding_Frame @Kathleen_Tyson_ @KenRoth Humanities hardly get any federal funding. The budgets being cut are destroying research in STEM.
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@MaulikAtanu @ZhugeEX s/warms/earns/
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@caleb_shepherd @andrewgwils Also, I don't complain. I try to rally people to working on the Right Things.
