Yann LeCun tells India AI summit that LLMs are 'not true intelligence'

Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun argued at the India AI Impact Summit that today's AI is "powerful information retrieval" rather than genuine intelligence. LeCun, one of three "godfathers of AI," has consistently pushed back on claims that LLMs are approaching human-level reasoning. His remarks contrast with peers like DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, who at the same summit emphasized AI's potential while calling for urgent safety cooperation. LeCun's Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs is pursuing alternative approaches to LLMs.

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