Yann LeCun, an A.I. Pioneer, Warns the Tech ‘Herd’ Could Hit a Dead End - The New York Times

Yann LeCun helped create the technology behind today’s chatbots. Now he says many tech companies are on the wrong path to creating intelligent machines. Yann LeCun helped create the technology behind today’s chatbots. Now he says many tech companies are on the wrong path to creating intelligent machines. Yann LeCun’s early research paved the way for many of today’s A.I. systems. Credit... Victor Llorente for The New York Times Supported by By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco Throughout his 40-year career as a computer scientist, Yann LeCun has earned a reputation as one of the world’s leading experts on artificial intelligence and a man with a penchant for throwing verbal grenades. He was one of three pioneering researchers who received the Turing Award, often called “the Nobel Prize of computing,” for their work on the technology that is now the foundation for modern A.I. For more than a decade, he also served as chief A.I. scientist at Meta, the parent company of Facebook and I

Yann LeCun helped create the technology behind today’s chatbots. Now he says many tech companies are on the wrong path to creating intelligent machines. Yann LeCun helped create the technology behind today’s chatbots. Now he says many tech companies are on the wrong path to creating intelligent machines. Yann LeCun’s early research paved the way for many of today’s A.I. systems. Credit... Victor Llorente for The New York Times Supported by By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco Throughout his 40-year career as a computer scientist, Yann LeCun has earned a reputation as one of the world’s le