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The next great leap in AI is behind schedule and crazy expensive
3 weeks ago

The next great leap in AI is behind schedule and crazy expensive

Live Mint  

OpenAI’s new artificial-intelligence project is behind schedule and running up huge bills. Earlier this year, Altman told students in a talk at Stanford University that OpenAI could say with “a high degree of scientific certainty" that GPT-5 would be much smarter than the current model. “If you’re doing it on a commercial clock, it’s not called research," said LeCun on …

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‘AI could be the key to solving global climate crisis,’ Meta’s Yann LeCun tells Nikhil Kamath of Zerodha
1 month, 1 week ago

‘AI could be the key to solving global climate crisis,’ Meta’s Yann LeCun tells Nikhil Kamath of Zerodha

Live Mint  

Artificial intelligence could play a pivotal role in addressing the global climate crisis, according to Yann LeCun, Chief AI Scientist at Meta, in a compelling discussion with Nikhil Kamath on theWTF Podcast. LeCun described AI as a "force multiplier for human intelligence," arguing that its ability to process complex datasets, simulate outcomes, and propose innovative solutions could revolutionise environmental policy …

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India's AI Future: A Call for Top-Tier Research Talent
2 months, 1 week ago

India's AI Future: A Call for Top-Tier Research Talent

Hindustan Times  

The article emphasizes the criticality of top-tier AI research talent for India's AI ambitions. While India has a strong AI infrastructure, it lacks research talent in the field. This is crucial for India to become an AI power and achieve its National AI Mission (NAIM). The article suggests that India should focus on attracting and retaining top-tier AI research talent …

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Meta's LeCun Seeks to Shape India's AI Future: A Vision for Open-Source Innovation
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Meta's LeCun Seeks to Shape India's AI Future: A Vision for Open-Source Innovation

The Hindu  

Meta's LeCun highlights India's potential in shaping the future of AI. He emphasizes the country's talent pool, vibrant tech ecosystem, and open-source approach as key drivers of AI innovation. Meta's vision for AI focuses on empowering individuals and driving societal transformation through AI. The country's focus on frugal engineering and low-cost development of AI models will promote AI inclusion and …

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Meta AI chief says he dislikes Elon Musk's 'vengeful politics, hype’, latter responds
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Meta AI chief says he dislikes Elon Musk's 'vengeful politics, hype’, latter responds

Hindustan Times  

When Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk invited followers to join his AI startup xAI, little did he know that he would get into a public spat with Meta AI chief Yann LeCun about Artificial Intelligence research and company ethics. Elon Musk tweeted, "Join xAI if you believe in our mission of understanding the universe, which requires a maximally rigorous …

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Is the robot uprising about to begin? OpenAI and Meta are set to release AI models capable of reasoning and planning - critical steps towards 'superhuman cognition'
9 months ago

Is the robot uprising about to begin? OpenAI and Meta are set to release AI models capable of reasoning and planning - critical steps towards 'superhuman cognition'

Daily Mail  

As far as AI has come in the last few years there are still a few things that machines can't do as well as humans. Joelle Pineau, vice-president of AI research at Meta says: 'We are hard at work in figuring out how to get these models not just to talk, but actually to reason, to plan. Meta, Facebook's parent …

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How Not to Be Stupid About AI, With Yann LeCun
1 year ago

How Not to Be Stupid About AI, With Yann LeCun

Wired  

You act as though it’s your duty to call this stuff out. They don't realize that AI actually mitigates dangers like hate speech, misinformation, propagandist attempts to corrupt the electoral system. At Meta we’ve had enormous progress using AI for things like that. Five years ago, of all the hate speech that Facebook removed from the platform, about 20 to …

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was warned that Instagram and Facebook could go extinct, here is why
1 year, 1 month ago

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was warned that Instagram and Facebook could go extinct, here is why

India Today  

ChatGPT launched in November 2022 and took the world by surprise. And now, reports say that the situation was similar at Meta too, as the company's top AI scientist had warned CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the "possible extinction" of Facebook and Instagram if they didn't catch up with ChatGPT. According to a report by The New York Times, Yann LeCun, …

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AI’s future could be ‘open-source’ or closed. Tech giants are divided as they lobby regulators
1 year, 1 month ago

AI’s future could be ‘open-source’ or closed. Tech giants are divided as they lobby regulators

Associated Press  

Tech leaders have been vocal proponents of the need to regulate artificial intelligence, but they’re also lobbying hard to make sure the new rules work in their favor. The AI Alliance — led by IBM and Meta and including Dell, Sony, chipmakers AMD and Intel and several universities and AI startups — is “coming together to articulate, simply put, that …

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Mark Zuckerberg Was Early in AI. Now Meta Is Trying to Catch Up.
1 year, 6 months ago

Mark Zuckerberg Was Early in AI. Now Meta Is Trying to Catch Up.

Live Mint  

A decade ago, the company founder and CEO saw the promise for artificial intelligence and invested large sums of money into its advancement. That’s a tall order as many of Meta’s top AI employees have departed and amid the company’s own sets of layoffs in what Zuckerberg has called a “year of efficiency." Meta’s AI research unit “is one of …

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Meta guru says ChatGPT-style AI is out-of-date
1 year, 6 months ago

Meta guru says ChatGPT-style AI is out-of-date

The Hindu  

The chief scientist for Facebook-owner Meta on Tuesday said that generative AI, the technology behind ChatGPT, was already at a dead end, instead promising new artificial intelligence resembling human rationality. LeCun spoke as Meta announced its latest AI project - called image-based Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture, or JEPA. "Generative models are the past, we will abandon them in favor of …

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Artificial intelligence is rising, and some experts argue more needs to be done to protect us
1 year, 8 months ago

Artificial intelligence is rising, and some experts argue more needs to be done to protect us

ABC  

Meta's chief artificial intelligence scientist Yann LeCun is no stranger to attracting controversy on Twitter. "People like Yann LeCunn divorce themselves from accountability and say it's up to the politicians and got nothing to do with me," she said. Google and Microsoft have launched AI chatbots, with Google CEO Sundar Pichai describing AI as being good at "synthesising insights for …

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Facebook’s New AI Teaches Itself to See With Less Human Help
3 years, 10 months ago

Facebook’s New AI Teaches Itself to See With Less Human Help

Wired  

Most artificial intelligence is still built on a foundation of human toil. “Getting self-supervised learning to work is very challenging, and breakthroughs in this space have important downstream consequences for improved visual recognition.” Russakovsky says it is notable that the Instagram images were not hand-picked to make independent learning easier. The Facebook research is a landmark for an AI approach …

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AI pioneers win tech industry's version of Nobel Prize for developing neural networks
5 years, 9 months ago

AI pioneers win tech industry's version of Nobel Prize for developing neural networks

Firstpost  

Some people are worried that the results of the researchers’ efforts might spiral out of control. Computers have become so smart during the past 20 years that people don’t think twice about chatting with digital assistants like Alexa and Siri or seeing their friends automatically tagged in Facebook pictures. The trio tapped into their own brainpower to make it possible …

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Artificial intelligence pioneers win ‘Tech Nobel’
5 years, 9 months ago

Artificial intelligence pioneers win ‘Tech Nobel’

The Hindu  

Computers have become so smart during the past 20 years that people don’t think twice about chatting with digital assistants like Alexa and Siri or seeing their friends automatically tagged in Facebook pictures. The trio tapped into their own brainpower to make it possible for machines to learn like humans, a breakthrough now commonly known as “artificial intelligence,” or AI. …

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Artificial intelligence pioneers win tech’s ‘Nobel Prize’
5 years, 9 months ago

Artificial intelligence pioneers win tech’s ‘Nobel Prize’

Associated Press  

SAN FRANCISCO — Computers have become so smart during the past 20 years that people don’t think twice about chatting with digital assistants like Alexa and Siri or seeing their friends automatically tagged in Facebook pictures. The trio tapped into their own brainpower to make it possible for machines to learn like humans, a breakthrough now commonly known as “artificial …

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