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Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world
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Re: Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world
#152Does anyone have a sense of how funding like this is typically allocated?
how much tends to go toward compute/training versus researchers, infrastructure, and general operations?
Re: Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world
#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
LeCun's technical approach with AMI will likely be based on JEPA, which is also a very different approach than most US-based or Chinese AI labs are taking. If you're looking to learn about JEPA, LeCun's vision document "A Path Towards Autonomous Machine Intelligence" is long but sketches out a very comprehensive vision of AI research: https://openreview.net/pdf?id=BZ5a1r-kVsf Training JEPA models within reach, even f…
Have you published anything about your health time series model? Sounds interesting!
Sure! Here’s a description: https://www.empirical.health/blog/wearable-foundation-model-...
Re: Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world
#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think it's "regardless", your opinion on LeCun being right should be highly correlated to your opinion on whether this is good for Europe. If you think that LLMs are sufficient and RSI is imminent (<1 year), this is horrible for Europe. It is a distracting boondoggle exactly at the wrong time.
> RSI Wait, we have another acronym to track. Is this the same/different than AGI and/or ASI?
Some people should definitely be getting Repetitive Strain Injury from all the hyping up of LLMs.
Re: Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world
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There seem to be other news articles mentioning that they are setting up in Singapore as their base. https://www.straitstimes.com/business/ai-godfather-raises-1-...
Hm, Singapour looks more like "one of their base"; they will have offices in Paris, Montréal, Singapour and New York (according to both this article and the interview Yann Le Cun did this morning on France Inter, the most listened radio in France). Of course, each relevant newspaper on those areas highlight that it's coming to their place, but it really seems to be distributed.
All your base are belong to Yann LeCun.
Re: Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world
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I didn't really know who he was, so I went and found his wikipedia, which is written like either he wrote it himself to stroke his ego, or someone who likes him wrote it to stroke his ego: > He is the Jacob T. Schwartz Professor of Computer Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. He served as Chief AI Scientist at Meta Platforms before leaving to work on his own startup compa…
You underestimate academia. Any academic that reads these two sentences only focuses on the first one: He has a named chair at Courant. In Germany, being a a Prof is added to your ID card/passport and becomes part of your official name, like knighthood in other countries.
No true regarding the IDs, only PhD titles can be added. Not job descriptions. Source: academia person in Germany.
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"Exodus of capital" as if OpenAI didn't just raise 115b
That's a bonfire of capital into a gaping hole in the ground with zero chance outside of "military pork" and "overcharging the taxpayer" to ever make their money back. The brain capital loss here is what's going to spook investors.
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Re: Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world
#158Regardless of your opinion of Yann or his views on auto regressive models being "sufficient" for what most would describe as AGI or ASI, this is probably a good thing for Europe. We need more well capitalized labs that aren't US or China centric and while I do like Mistral, they just haven't been keeping up on the frontier of model performance and seem like they've sort of pivoted into being integration specialists a…
Is it good? This will almost certainly fail. Not because Yann or Europe, but because these sort of hyper-hyped projects fail. SSI and Thinking Machines haven’t lived to the hype.
Re: Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world
#159Regardless of your opinion of Yann or his views on auto regressive models being "sufficient" for what most would describe as AGI or ASI, this is probably a good thing for Europe. We need more well capitalized labs that aren't US or China centric and while I do like Mistral, they just haven't been keeping up on the frontier of model performance and seem like they've sort of pivoted into being integration specialists a…
Is it good? This will almost certainly fail. Not because Yann or Europe, but because these sort of hyper-hyped projects fail. SSI and Thinking Machines haven’t lived to the hype.
Erm, ... OpenAI has hyped when it started and it took 6 years to take off. It's way to early to declare the SSI and Thinking Machines have failed.
Re: Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world
#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you published anything about your health time series model? Sounds interesting!
Sure! Here’s a description: https://www.empirical.health/blog/wearable-foundation-model-...
Thanks! This is very neat.
BTW, I went to your website looking for this, but didn't find your blog. I do now see that it's linked in the footer, but I was looking for it in the hamburger menu.