I take LeCun to be more of a troll than a real thinker on the topic. His arguments are worth refuting only because his expertise will make others believe and echo them. Those refutations need to be concise to work in the public sphere, I think.
That “troll” runs one of the most powerful AI labs and freely distributes LLMs on the level of state-of-the-art half a year ago on the internet. This is not just about someone talking nonsense in public, like Melanie Mitchell or Steven Pinker. LeCun may literally be the one who contributes most to the destruction of humanity. I would give everything I have to convince him that what he’s doing is dangerous. But I have no idea how to do that if even his former colleagues Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio can’t.
I take LeCun to be more of a troll than a real thinker on the topic. His arguments are worth refuting only because his expertise will make others believe and echo them. Those refutations need to be concise to work in the public sphere, I think.
That “troll” runs one of the most powerful AI labs and freely distributes LLMs on the level of state-of-the-art half a year ago on the internet. This is not just about someone talking nonsense in public, like Melanie Mitchell or Steven Pinker. LeCun may literally be the one who contributes most to the destruction of humanity. I would give everything I have to convince him that what he’s doing is dangerous. But I have no idea how to do that if even his former colleagues Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio can’t.