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Yann LeCun

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI

I actually made that comment on just about every social network I can, and I've made that point multiple times in various forums. Here's my point of view on this. People can complain that AI systems are biased, and they generally are biased by the distribution of the training data that they've been using.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI

I actually made that comment on just about every social network I can, and I've made that point multiple times in various forums. Here's my point of view on this. People can complain that AI systems are biased, and they generally are biased by the distribution of the training data that they've been using.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI

trend on, that reflects biases in society and that is potentially offensive to some people or potentially not. And some techniques to de-bias then become offensive to some people because of historical incorrectness and things like that. And so you can ask the question, you can ask two questions. The first question is, is it possible to produce an AI system that is not biased?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI

trend on, that reflects biases in society and that is potentially offensive to some people or potentially not. And some techniques to de-bias then become offensive to some people because of historical incorrectness and things like that. And so you can ask the question, you can ask two questions. The first question is, is it possible to produce an AI system that is not biased?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI

trend on, that reflects biases in society and that is potentially offensive to some people or potentially not. And some techniques to de-bias then become offensive to some people because of historical incorrectness and things like that. And so you can ask the question, you can ask two questions. The first question is, is it possible to produce an AI system that is not biased?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI

And the answer is absolutely not. And it's not because of technological challenges, although there are technological challenges to that. It's because Bias is in the eye of the beholder. Different people may have different ideas about what constitutes bias for a lot of things.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI

And the answer is absolutely not. And it's not because of technological challenges, although there are technological challenges to that. It's because Bias is in the eye of the beholder. Different people may have different ideas about what constitutes bias for a lot of things.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI

And the answer is absolutely not. And it's not because of technological challenges, although there are technological challenges to that. It's because Bias is in the eye of the beholder. Different people may have different ideas about what constitutes bias for a lot of things.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI

I mean, there are facts that are indisputable, but there are a lot of opinions or things that can be expressed in different ways. And so you cannot have an unbiased system. That's just an impossibility. And so what's the... What's the answer to this? And the answer is the same answer that we found in liberal democracy about the press. The press needs to be free and diverse.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI

I mean, there are facts that are indisputable, but there are a lot of opinions or things that can be expressed in different ways. And so you cannot have an unbiased system. That's just an impossibility. And so what's the... What's the answer to this? And the answer is the same answer that we found in liberal democracy about the press. The press needs to be free and diverse.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI

I mean, there are facts that are indisputable, but there are a lot of opinions or things that can be expressed in different ways. And so you cannot have an unbiased system. That's just an impossibility. And so what's the... What's the answer to this? And the answer is the same answer that we found in liberal democracy about the press. The press needs to be free and diverse.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI

We have free speech for a good reason. is because we don't want all of our information to come from a unique source. Because that's opposite to the whole idea of democracy and progress of ideas and even science, right? In science, people have to argue for different opinions and And science makes progress when people disagree and they come up with an answer and, you know, a consensus forms, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI

We have free speech for a good reason. is because we don't want all of our information to come from a unique source. Because that's opposite to the whole idea of democracy and progress of ideas and even science, right? In science, people have to argue for different opinions and And science makes progress when people disagree and they come up with an answer and, you know, a consensus forms, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI

We have free speech for a good reason. is because we don't want all of our information to come from a unique source. Because that's opposite to the whole idea of democracy and progress of ideas and even science, right? In science, people have to argue for different opinions and And science makes progress when people disagree and they come up with an answer and, you know, a consensus forms, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI

And it's true in all democracies around the world. So there is a future. which is already happening, where every single one of our interaction with the digital world will be mediated by AI systems, AI assistants, right? We're going to have smart glasses.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI

And it's true in all democracies around the world. So there is a future. which is already happening, where every single one of our interaction with the digital world will be mediated by AI systems, AI assistants, right? We're going to have smart glasses.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI

And it's true in all democracies around the world. So there is a future. which is already happening, where every single one of our interaction with the digital world will be mediated by AI systems, AI assistants, right? We're going to have smart glasses.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI

You can already buy them from Meta, the Ray-Ban Meta, where you can talk to them, and they are connected with an LLM, and you can get answers on any question you have. Or you can be looking at a...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI

You can already buy them from Meta, the Ray-Ban Meta, where you can talk to them, and they are connected with an LLM, and you can get answers on any question you have. Or you can be looking at a...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI

You can already buy them from Meta, the Ray-Ban Meta, where you can talk to them, and they are connected with an LLM, and you can get answers on any question you have. Or you can be looking at a...