The New AI Dream Allegedly Driving Yann LeCun Away from Meta

One of the most important AI scientists in Big Tech wants to scrap the current approach to building human-level AI. What we need, Yann LeCun has indicated, are not large language models, but “world models.”

LeCun, chief AI scientist of “fundamental AI research” at Meta, is expected to resign from Meta soon according to multiple reports from credible outlets. LeCun is a 65-year-old elder statesman in the world of AI science, and he has had seemingly limitless resources at his…