AI is 'not smart' so what's next in artificial intelligence?
Leading AI researcher Yan LeCun has a start-up which is developing a more flexible AI system.
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"We don't have robots that are nearly as good at understanding the physical world as a rat."
— Yann LeCun , Academic
"They're not a path towards human level or human-like intelligence, or even animal-like intelligence, because they cannot deal with real world data."
— Yann LeCun , Academic
"LLMs are largely hopeless for robotics."
— Yann LeCun , Academic
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Leading AI researcher Yan LeCun has a start-up which is developing a more flexible AI system.
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