Yann LeCun
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At some point, you know, the train was going to be a horrible thing because, you know, you can't breathe past 50 kilometers an hour. And so there's a wonderful website called the Pessimist Archive, which has all those newspaper clips of all the horrible things people imagine would arrive because of either technological innovation or a cultural phenomenon. You know,
At some point, you know, the train was going to be a horrible thing because, you know, you can't breathe past 50 kilometers an hour. And so there's a wonderful website called the Pessimist Archive, which has all those newspaper clips of all the horrible things people imagine would arrive because of either technological innovation or a cultural phenomenon. You know,
These are wonderful examples of jazz or comic books being blamed for unemployment or young people not wanting to work anymore and things like that. That has existed for centuries. It's knee-jerk reactions. The question is, do we embrace change or do we resist it? And what are the real dangers as opposed to the imagined ones?
These are wonderful examples of jazz or comic books being blamed for unemployment or young people not wanting to work anymore and things like that. That has existed for centuries. It's knee-jerk reactions. The question is, do we embrace change or do we resist it? And what are the real dangers as opposed to the imagined ones?
These are wonderful examples of jazz or comic books being blamed for unemployment or young people not wanting to work anymore and things like that. That has existed for centuries. It's knee-jerk reactions. The question is, do we embrace change or do we resist it? And what are the real dangers as opposed to the imagined ones?
Well, that's exactly why we need open source platforms.
Well, that's exactly why we need open source platforms.
Well, that's exactly why we need open source platforms.
Yeah. Again, I think the answer to this is open source platforms and then enabling a widely diverse set of people to build AI assistants that represent the diversity of cultures, opinions, languages, and value systems across the world, so that you're not bound to just be brainwashed by a particular way of thinking because of a single AI entity.
Yeah. Again, I think the answer to this is open source platforms and then enabling a widely diverse set of people to build AI assistants that represent the diversity of cultures, opinions, languages, and value systems across the world, so that you're not bound to just be brainwashed by a particular way of thinking because of a single AI entity.
Yeah. Again, I think the answer to this is open source platforms and then enabling a widely diverse set of people to build AI assistants that represent the diversity of cultures, opinions, languages, and value systems across the world, so that you're not bound to just be brainwashed by a particular way of thinking because of a single AI entity.
So, I mean, I think it's a really, really important question for society. And the problem I'm seeing is that, which is why I've been so vocal and sometimes a little sardonic about it. Never stop. Never stop, Jan.
So, I mean, I think it's a really, really important question for society. And the problem I'm seeing is that, which is why I've been so vocal and sometimes a little sardonic about it. Never stop. Never stop, Jan.
So, I mean, I think it's a really, really important question for society. And the problem I'm seeing is that, which is why I've been so vocal and sometimes a little sardonic about it. Never stop. Never stop, Jan.
It's because I see the danger of this concentration of power through proprietary AI systems as a much bigger danger than everything else. That if we really want diversity of opinion, AI systems that in this future where we'll all be interacting through AI systems.
It's because I see the danger of this concentration of power through proprietary AI systems as a much bigger danger than everything else. That if we really want diversity of opinion, AI systems that in this future where we'll all be interacting through AI systems.
It's because I see the danger of this concentration of power through proprietary AI systems as a much bigger danger than everything else. That if we really want diversity of opinion, AI systems that in this future where we'll all be interacting through AI systems.
We need those to be diverse for the preservation of diversity of ideas and creeds and political opinions and whatever, and the preservation of democracy. And what works against this is people who think that for reasons of security, we should keep AI systems under lock and key because it's too dangerous to put it in the hands of everybody because it could be used by terrorists or something.
We need those to be diverse for the preservation of diversity of ideas and creeds and political opinions and whatever, and the preservation of democracy. And what works against this is people who think that for reasons of security, we should keep AI systems under lock and key because it's too dangerous to put it in the hands of everybody because it could be used by terrorists or something.
We need those to be diverse for the preservation of diversity of ideas and creeds and political opinions and whatever, and the preservation of democracy. And what works against this is people who think that for reasons of security, we should keep AI systems under lock and key because it's too dangerous to put it in the hands of everybody because it could be used by terrorists or something.