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Yann LeCun

@ylecun

Professor at NYU. Chief AI Scientist at Meta.
Researcher in AI, Machine Learning, Robotics, etc.
ACM Turing Award Laureate.

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AI is not some sort of natural phenomenon that we have no control over.

AI is being built by us, humans.

Hence, if you're scared of AI, what you are actually scared of are your fellow humans.
You probably have doubts about the ability of institutions to do the right things with…

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Virtues of today were vices a century ago, meaning some New Year’s resolutions in the past were opposite of resolutions today:

2024: Read more
1924: Read less

2024: Cycle more
1924: Cycle less

2024: Play more chess
1858: Play less chess
newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/new-years-re…

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Le Washington Post dévoile la stratégie russe pour déstabiliser politiquement la France en y faisant monter l'extrême-droite. Je vous explique tout.

Vous allez voir, certains éléments ressemblent étrangement aux discours que l'on retrouve souvent sur Twitter.

Petit thread🧶1/14

Le Washington Post dévoile la stratégie russe pour déstabiliser politiquement la France en y faisant monter l'extrême-droite. Je vous explique tout. Vous allez voir, certains éléments ressemblent étrangement aux discours que l'on retrouve souvent sur Twitter. Petit thread🧶1/14
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Never mind the typewriter, what about P(doom | PowerPoint) ?

'We had 12.9 GB of slides on our network and I thought, 'What a huge waste of corporate productivity.' So we banned it. And we've had three unbelievable record-breaking fiscal quarters since. Now, I would argue that…

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Few things have a more amusing and falsifiable history than moral panics about media and children.

Amy Orben calls this the 'Sisyphean Cycle of Technology Panics' amyorben.com/uploads/thesis/

Few things have a more amusing and falsifiable history than moral panics about media and children. Amy Orben calls this the 'Sisyphean Cycle of Technology Panics' amyorben.com/uploads/thesis/
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It’s absolutely true that contemporary concerns about the impact of social media on young people just recapitulate older worries about cable, about broadcast TV, about the radio, etc but … weren’t all those old worries basically correct?

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BREAKING:

Japan decides to restart Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, one of the world’s largest nuclear power plants (7 reactors) after having been offline for more than a decade after Fukushima.

The idea is for Japan to become less dependent on foreign energy sources.

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BREAKING: Japan decides to restart Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, one of the world’s largest nuclear power plants (7 reactors) after having been offline for more than a decade after Fukushima. The idea is for Japan to become less dependent on foreign energy sources. 🇯🇵
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Just for fun prompting challenge!

I will give a $50 bounty (and $50 to charity) to the first person who can replicate one of the OAI / NYT lawsuit Memorization Attacks on the current version of ChatGPT-4. Let's say you have to do it for New Yorker article.

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