Yann LeCun

a lot of our interactions with the digital world are going to be mediated by those systems in the near future. Increasingly, the search engines that we're going to use are not going to be search engines. They're going to be dialogue systems that will just ask a question. And it will answer and then point you to perhaps an appropriate reference for it. But here is the thing.

a lot of our interactions with the digital world are going to be mediated by those systems in the near future. Increasingly, the search engines that we're going to use are not going to be search engines. They're going to be dialogue systems that will just ask a question. And it will answer and then point you to perhaps an appropriate reference for it. But here is the thing.

We cannot afford those systems to come from a handful of companies on the west coast of the U.S., Because those systems will constitute the repository of all human knowledge. And we cannot have that be controlled by a small number of people, right? It has to be diverse. For the same reason, the press has to be diverse. So how do we get a diverse set of AI assistants?

We cannot afford those systems to come from a handful of companies on the west coast of the U.S., Because those systems will constitute the repository of all human knowledge. And we cannot have that be controlled by a small number of people, right? It has to be diverse. For the same reason, the press has to be diverse. So how do we get a diverse set of AI assistants?

We cannot afford those systems to come from a handful of companies on the west coast of the U.S., Because those systems will constitute the repository of all human knowledge. And we cannot have that be controlled by a small number of people, right? It has to be diverse. For the same reason, the press has to be diverse. So how do we get a diverse set of AI assistants?

It's very expensive and difficult to train a base model, a base LLM at the moment. In the future, it might be something different, but at the moment, that's an LLM. So only a few companies can do this properly. And If some of those top systems are open source, anybody can use them. Anybody can fine tune them.

It's very expensive and difficult to train a base model, a base LLM at the moment. In the future, it might be something different, but at the moment, that's an LLM. So only a few companies can do this properly. And If some of those top systems are open source, anybody can use them. Anybody can fine tune them.

It's very expensive and difficult to train a base model, a base LLM at the moment. In the future, it might be something different, but at the moment, that's an LLM. So only a few companies can do this properly. And If some of those top systems are open source, anybody can use them. Anybody can fine tune them.

If we put in place some systems that allows any group of people, whether they are individual citizens, groups of citizens, government organizations, NGOs, companies, whatever, to take those open source systems

If we put in place some systems that allows any group of people, whether they are individual citizens, groups of citizens, government organizations, NGOs, companies, whatever, to take those open source systems

If we put in place some systems that allows any group of people, whether they are individual citizens, groups of citizens, government organizations, NGOs, companies, whatever, to take those open source systems

systems, AI systems, and fine-tune them for their own purpose on their own data, then we're going to have a very large diversity of different AI systems that are specialized for all of those things, right?

systems, AI systems, and fine-tune them for their own purpose on their own data, then we're going to have a very large diversity of different AI systems that are specialized for all of those things, right?

systems, AI systems, and fine-tune them for their own purpose on their own data, then we're going to have a very large diversity of different AI systems that are specialized for all of those things, right?

So I tell you, I talked to the French government quite a bit, and the French government will not accept that the digital diet of all their citizens be controlled by three companies on the West Coast of the U.S. That's just not acceptable, right? It's a danger to democracy, regardless of how well-intentioned those companies are. And it's also a danger to local culture, to values, to language.

So I tell you, I talked to the French government quite a bit, and the French government will not accept that the digital diet of all their citizens be controlled by three companies on the West Coast of the U.S. That's just not acceptable, right? It's a danger to democracy, regardless of how well-intentioned those companies are. And it's also a danger to local culture, to values, to language.

So I tell you, I talked to the French government quite a bit, and the French government will not accept that the digital diet of all their citizens be controlled by three companies on the West Coast of the U.S. That's just not acceptable, right? It's a danger to democracy, regardless of how well-intentioned those companies are. And it's also a danger to local culture, to values, to language.

I was talking with the founder of Infosys in India. He's funding a project to fine-tune Lama 2, the open-source model produced by Meta. so that Lama Thu speaks all 22 official languages in India. It's very important for people in India.

I was talking with the founder of Infosys in India. He's funding a project to fine-tune Lama 2, the open-source model produced by Meta. so that Lama Thu speaks all 22 official languages in India. It's very important for people in India.

I was talking with the founder of Infosys in India. He's funding a project to fine-tune Lama 2, the open-source model produced by Meta. so that Lama Thu speaks all 22 official languages in India. It's very important for people in India.