2013
In summer 2013, Mark Zuckerberg and Mike Schroepfer recruited Yann LeCun to start Facebook's AI research lab, FAIR.
“summer 2013, Mark and Shrep go out to recruit Jan LeCun and convince him to come start an AI research lab at Facebook.”
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Yann LeCun
9 facts from 6 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2015
Facebook had just started Facebook AI Research with Yann LeCun joining, when Raghu began working with Google Brain.
“Facebook had just started the the Facebook AI research effort with with Yann LeCun joining them, and and that was that was basically it.”
Undated
Yann LeCun, as quoted by Lex Fridman, argues that open research and open source are the best ways to understand and mitigate AI risks.
“open research and open source are the best ways to understand and mitigate the risks, and two, AI is not something that just happens.”
Undated
Ghodsi named Rich Sutton, creator of reinforcement learning, and Yann LeCun as leading researchers who believe the superintelligence approach is wrong.
“Rich Sutton, who created reinforcement learning, which, you know, a lot of this stuff is built on. You have Yann LeCun, who's one of the three founding fathers”
Undated
Rana El Kaliouby lists Eric Schmidt, Yann LeCun and Mark Cuban among Samaya AI's investors.
“that includes former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Jan LeCun, Mark Cuban, who we've had on the show.”
Undated
Yann LeCun, described as one of the three godfathers of AI, spent about a decade at Meta doing research.
“Yann LeCun, who is famously one of the three godfathers of AI, um, and a and a major, uh, luminary in the field, uh, had spent a decade at Meta doing research.”
Undated
Chris Benson says part of LeCun's agreement to stay at Meta was that its models would be open sourced, which he gives as the reason the Llama family was open.
“And part of the the agreement on him staying at Meta, uh, during that time was that the models that they had would be open sourced.”
Undated
Yann LeCun left Meta, followed by significant changes in Meta's approach to AI.
“Yann LeCun left Meta and and a lot of change ensued in terms of how Meta was approaching AI.”
Undated
Chris Benson says Yann LeCun has repeatedly argued for moving past large language models toward world models.
“Yann LeCun, one of the the godfathers of AI, has talked about that many times over the last few years.”
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