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Getty Images<\/p>\nLiv McMahonTechnology reporter<\/p>\n
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Prof LeCun is known for advancing the deep learning field of AI, and for his jazzy bowties<\/p>\n
Just a couple of weeks ago, one of the “godfathers” of artificial intelligence was in St James’s Palace being handed an award from King Charles<\/a> for his work in artificial intelligence (AI).<\/p>\n Professor Yann LeCun was being honoured along with six other recipients for his contributions to the field, which have been credited as advancing deep learning. <\/p>\n But Mr LeCun is at odds with some of the AI world over the future of the generation-defining technology.<\/p>\n And now he is going all-in on his idea of “advanced machine intelligence” after announcing he is leaving his role as Meta’s chief AI scientist to start a new firm.<\/p>\n During his 12 years at the company, Prof LeCun won the prestigious Turing Award<\/a> and witnessed several flurries of excitement around AI – not least the most recent boom in generative AI accelerated by rival OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT in late 2022.<\/p>\n But his departure comes amid speculation the AI boom could meet an abrupt end should the so-called “AI bubble” of ballooning valuations and soaring spending burst.<\/p>\n Investors, analysts and even big tech bosses like Google’s chief executive Sundar Pichai <\/a>have said a market correction to the AI sector would ripple across the wider economy.<\/p>\n What LeCun thinks the AI world gets wrong<\/p>\n Prof LeCun announced his planned departure from Meta on Wednesday after more than a week of rumours and reports of his exit.<\/p>\n In a series of posts on Threads, he thanked the company’s founder Mark Zuckerberg and highlighted its Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) lab as his “proudest non-technical accomplishment”.<\/p>\n “As many of you have heard through rumours or recent media articles, I am planning to leave Meta after 12 years: 5 years as founding director of FAIR and 7 years as Chief AI Scientist,” he wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n “The impact of FAIR on the company, on the field of AI, on the tech community, and on the wider world has been spectacular.”<\/p>\n The lab has over the years focused on developing systems and techniques to advance machine learning and translation.<\/p>\n But, like large parts of the sector, Meta has looked to concentrate much of the company’s research and spending on large language models (LLMs) – the systems at the heart of generative AI tools such as chatbots and image generators.<\/p>\n Prof LeCun has suggested LLMs will be less useful in attempting to create AI systems that can match human intelligence.<\/p>\n Instead, he wants to pursue what he called “advanced machine intelligence”.<\/p>\n It trains AI models primarily by using visual learning – trying to replicate how a child or a baby animal learns.<\/p>\n That differs to LLMs, which are fed vast amounts of existing data, and then asked to generate a result based on the data and a prompt.<\/p>\n Prof LeCun will still have a relationship with Meta once he sets up his new company, he said – adding in posts about his departure<\/a> it would be a partner of his new firm.<\/p>\n But reports suggest he has been increasingly moving away from the approach the company wants to take. <\/p>\n Unlike his fellow AI godfathers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, Prof LeCun has cast doubt on the idea AI might pose an existential threat to humanity.<\/p>\n In 2023, he called such fears “preposterously ridiculous”.<\/p>\n “Will AI take over the world? No, this is a projection of human nature on machines,” he told the BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n But some have also questioned Prof LeCun’s characterisation as an outlier or visionary in the industry.<\/p>\n
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