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points by ViktorRay 3 hours ago | 0 comments
Almost all statements Yann LeCun made back then (LLMs won't be able to do this or that) turned out to be wrong. They were right to fire him.

The idea that someone should be fired just because they were wrong seems to be something that would cause issues if one wanted to think long term.

This approach will make people afraid of being wrong. It will lead them to avoid challenging dogmatic assumptions in large organizations and inevitably lead to group think.

People really shouldn’t be punished for saying wrong things. Long term it’s better for a company if they aren’t punished for that. Helps to let people freely criticize dogmas or propose new ones.

[–] HDThoreaun 1 hour ago
Depends on your role. If youre in charge of research in a hundred billion dollar org you should absolutely be fired if you devote your org to pie in the sky research instead of creating tangible value. If your job is just doing the research obviously you shouldnt be punished if your experiments dont work. Yann was fired because his main job was balancing product development with research and he didnt do that.
[–] jack_pp 2 hours ago
If what you say is true then they would have abandoned LLMs. You're saying that it would have benefited them?
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