neural networks

4 statements across 4 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Dec 10, 2021 by Yann LeCun · across every show →

Everything said about neural networks, oldest first

Dec 10, 2021 positive
Assertion Supported
LeCun: AI Systems Can Identify More Faces Than Any Human
“Identify faces and have a system that recognize, recognizes more faces than any human can with you know, the same level of accuracy. You know, maybe not with the same sort of robustness to you know, different changes in pose and facial hair and things like tha…”
Yann LeCun Dec 10, 2021 ▶ 44:31 Daniel Kahneman and Yann LeCun: How To Get AI To Think Like Humans (Full Episode)
Jun 4, 2026 positive
Insight
Hinton: Predicting next tokens and frames is sufficient to create smart systems
“The answer to question one is yes, if you can figure out how to change each connection strength, you can make systems that are very smart just by training on data to predict the next word, or to predict the next frame of a video, or to predict something about …”
Geoffrey Hinton Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 20:04 AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried
Jun 26, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Brockman: AI scaling laws show no wall in sight
“70 years of people, maybe 80 years now of people saying this stuff is never going to work, never going to scale, going to hit the wall, hasn't hit the wall yet. There's still no wall in sight.”
Greg Brockman Jun 26, 2026 ▶ 3:25:48 Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
Jul 7, 2026 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kutylowski: Translation solutions really did not work before neural networks in 2017
“That was the major step in AI translation. Before that, all of the solutions really didn't work. I think that's just general consensus.”
Jarek Kutylowski Jul 7, 2026 ▶ 22:01 Why Specialized AI Models Are Challenging the Frontier Labs — With DeepL CEO Jarek Kutylowski
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