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0 pointsthreethirtytwo2mo ago0 comments

Yann Lecunn was vocal about his stance against LLMs very early on and claimed they were a dead end. Well he's been proven fucking wrong. Completely.

George Hinton was his mentor and George is the main god father of AI while Yann is more of a malfunctioning student still holding onto the stochastic parrot monicker. Here's George saying what you need to know:

https://www.reddit.com/r/agi/comments/1qwoee7/godfather_of_a...

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qsera2mo ago· 2 in thread

> Well he's been proven fucking wrong. Completely.

How was he "proven" wrong?

> Yann is more of a malfunctioning student...

lol what?

threethirtytwoOP2mo ago

He’s proven wrong by reality. Look at what LLMs are doing right now. It’s utterly obvious now that hallucinations are getting reduced, AI is extremely effective now…

Yann is malfunctioning because he cant reconcile his past statements with reality. He can’t admit he’s wrong. As time goes on his past statements will look even more and more absurd as progress on AI keeps moving forward.

At the same time we have Terence Tao using ai to develop new math and Hinton saying the opposite with actual evidence and the entire industry. Yann is a clown: https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1piro45/people... and his opinions are not mainstream at all.

qsera2mo ago

>now that hallucinations are getting reduced..

Actually that is done by bolting more "fact checking" layers on top. Even that does not fix it very well..

So at a fundamental level, LLMs have not really progressed. On a superficial level, they have, but that is only because marketing wanted to show the "progress" over a short amount of time, so that the "uninitiated" will extrapolate that to mean some god like AI in near future, raking in all the investor money...

Smart move though. It is working very well....

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