“[Can a commercial entity] produce Wikipedia? No. Wikipedia is crowdsourced because it works. So it's going to be the same for AI systems, they're going to have to be trained, or at least fine-tuned, with the help of everyone around the world. And people will only do this if they can contribute to a widely-available open platform.”
“The direction of history is that the more data we get, the more our methods rely on learning. Ultimately, the task use learning end to end. That's what happened for speech, handwriting, and object rec...”
Yann LeCun
“[AI progres is very dependent on Moore's law.] The one thing that allowed big progress in computer vision with ConvNets is the availability of GPUs with performance over 1 Tflops.”
Yann LeCun
“Don't get fooled by people who claim to have a solution to Artificial General Intelligence, who claim to have AI systems that work "just like the human brain", or who claim to have figured out how the...”
Yann LeCun
“My problem with sticking too close to nature is that it's like "cargo-cult" science... I don't use neural nets because they look like the brain. I use them because they are a convenient way to constru...”
Yann LeCun
“Many of the papers that make it passed the review process are [good but boring] papers that bring an improvement to a well-established technique... Truly innovative papers rarely make it, largely beca...”
Yann LeCun
