Visionary:Yann LeCun
Yann LeCun
Biography
Chief AI Scientist at Meta, Turing Award winner, pioneer of deep learning.
Category
AI Researcher
Notable Quotes
On AI Governance and Regulation
"Current AI systems are not intelligent. They're just very good pattern matchers."
—Yann LeCun, World Economic Forum Panel (2024), January 16, 2024, Davos
On Creative Destruction in AI Era
"AGI will not happen suddenly. It will be gradual and predictable."
—Yann LeCun, Twitter/X (2023), December 3, 2023 Link
On Network Effects and Platform Monopolies
"Open source AI is essential for democracy and preventing concentration of power."
—Yann LeCun, MIT EmTech Conference (2023), November 14, 2023, Cambridge, MA
On Human Capital in Age of AI
"Self-supervised learning is the dark matter of intelligence."
—Yann LeCun, ICLR Keynote (2021), May 3, 2021, International Conference on Learning Representations
On Productivity Paradox in Digital Age
"The next breakthrough in AI will come from machines that have a model of the world."
—Yann LeCun, Scientific American (2022), March 1, 2022