Lex Fridman Podcast

Lex Fridman Podcast


#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI

March 07, 2024

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:

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(00:00) – Introduction

(09:10) – Limits of LLMs

(20:47) – Bilingualism and thinking

(24:39) – Video prediction

(31:59) – JEPA (Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture)

(35:08) – JEPA vs LLMs

(44:24) – DINO and I-JEPA

(45:44) – V-JEPA

(51:15) – Hierarchical planning

(57:33) – Autoregressive LLMs

(1:12:59) – AI hallucination

(1:18:23) – Reasoning in AI

(1:35:55) – Reinforcement learning

(1:41:02) – Woke AI

(1:50:41) – Open source

(1:54:19) – AI and ideology

(1:56:50) – Marc Andreesen

(2:04:49) – Llama 3

(2:11:13) – AGI

(2:15:41) – AI doomers

(2:31:31) – Joscha Bach

(2:35:44) – Humanoid robots

(2:44:52) – Hope for the future