Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #416

Yann LeCun is the Chief AI Scientist at Meta, professor at NYU, Turing Award winner, and one of the most influential researchers in the history of AI. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
2:18 - Limits of LLMs
13:54 - Bilingualism and thinking
17:46 - Video prediction
25:07 - JEPA (Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture)
28:15 - JEPA vs LLMs
37:31 - DINO and I-JEPA
38:51 - V-JEPA
44:22 - Hierarchical planning
50:40 - Autoregressive LLMs
1:06:06 - AI hallucination
1:11:30 - Reasoning in AI
1:29:02 - Reinforcement learning
1:34:10 - Woke AI
1:43:48 - Open source
1:47:26 - AI and ideology
1:49:58 - Marc Andreesen
1:57:56 - Llama 3
2:04:20 - AGI
2:08:48 - AI doomers
2:24:38 - Joscha Bach
2:28:51 - Humanoid robots
2:38:00 - Hope for the future

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