Yann LeCun
Yann LeCun is a French computer scientist serving as Chief AI Scientist at Facebook AI Research (FAIR) and a part-time Silver Professor at New York University. He is best known for his work on optical character recognition and computer vision using convolutional neural networks. He is considered one of the three "Godfathers of AI" alongside Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton, with the three receiving the ACM A.M. Turing Award in 2018.
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Yann LeCun"Open source models [DeepSeek] are surpassing closed ones [ChatGPT]."Feb 26, 2025
Controversy:Will DeepSeek Replace ChatGPT?
Yann LeCun"The benefits of open-source AI platforms in terms of progress, safety, economic development, and cultural diversity are overwhelming."Nov 08, 2023
Controversy:Will AI Bring Economic Risks?
Yann LeCunSociety is more likely to get "cat-level" or "dog-level" AI years before human-level AI.Dec 03, 2023
Controversy:Will AI Surpass Human Intelligence, and When?
Yann LeCunExistential risk debate is "very premature."Oct 20, 2023
Controversy:Does AI Pose an Existential Threat to Humanity?