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points by jackb4040 5 hours ago | 0 comments
You can't. It's AI booster propaganda. Yann LeCun obviously understands transformers better than random anons on this venture capital fan forum. This means he also understands their limitations, which is too complex for people who just want their preferred billionaire to win.
[–] nonethewiser 3 hours ago
> "I take an object, I put it on the table, and I push the table... there's no text in the world, I believe, that explains this... your GPT-5000, or whatever it is, it's never gonna learn about this."

Lex fridman podcast 2022

ChatGPT answers this just fine.

He also said they will be “ Writing aids, not much more" and they “Can't plan.”

No one said hes an idiot. He was just clearly wrong about LLM capabilities.

[–] ViscountPenguin 2 hours ago
Yann is smart but obviously not omniscient, I don't think it does the ML community a service to pretend that elders are never incorrect (or even badly incorrect). This type of thing is how we got the cult around Schmidhubering.
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