Geoffrey Hinton v Yann LeCun
Gloves off!
Hinton
LeCun
Academic advisor: Geoffrey Hinton
h-index: 140
Education: ESIEE Paris
Awards: Turing Award, Princess of Asturias Award for Technical & Scientific Research
Notable student: Wojciech Zaremba
Nationality: French
“Ivory tower”?
I don't talk much about this - I obtained one of the first FDA approvals in ML + radiology and it informs much of how I think about AI systems and their impact on the world. If you're a pure technologist, you should read the following: There's so much to unpack for both why Geoff was wrong, and why his future predictions should not be taken seriously either. Geoff made a classic error that technologists often make, which is to observe a particular behavior (identifying some subset of radiology scans correctly) against some task (identifying hemorrhage on CT head scans correctly), and then to extrapolate based on that task alone. The reality is that reducing any job, especially a wildly complex job that requires a decade of training, to a handful of tasks is quite absurd. Here's a bunch of stuff you wouldn't know about radiologists unless you built an AI company WITH them instead of opining about their job disappearing from an ivory tower. (1) Radiologists are NOT performing 2d pattern recognition - they have a 3d world model of the brain and its physical dynamics in their head. The motion and behavior of their brain to various traumas informs their prediction of hemorrhage determination.
Fisher tweet
Yann on pushing tables
Yann LeCun why not meta videos and here
the google team
fake law cases
see also Demis Hassabis, Scott Aaronson, Sam Altman, Fei-fei Li, Yoshua Bengio, Ray Kurzweil, Nick Bostrom, Elizer Yudkowsky,Andrew Ng, Blaise Aguera y Arcas
In December 2015, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Infosys, and YC Research announced the formation of OpenAI and pledged over $1 billion to the venture.
