Yann LeCun
20 statements across 5 episodes · 7 bullish · 8 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Dec 10, 2021 by Yann LeCun · said 97 times in 38 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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brought up most by Alex Kantrowitz (69), M.G. Siegler (8), Joelle Pineau (4), Gary Marcus (4), Ranjan Roy (3), Sir Nick Clegg (2), Geoffrey Hinton (2), Aaron Levie (2)
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2026 29 mentions in 11 episodes 3 per episode
- AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried
- Claude Code Head Boris Cherny: Insane Growth, Tokenmaxxing, AI Agents' Next Frontier
- More OpenAI C-Suite Drama, Is Siri Seriously Broken?, Meta’s Elusive Next Hit
- AI's Research Frontier: Memory, World Models, & Planning — With Joelle Pineau
- Why The AI Bubble Will Burst: The Most Logical Case — With Paul Kedrosky
- Demis Steps Down, Apple’s Memory Problem, Microsoft’s Clever Trick
- How The AI Bet Pays Off + AI Lab Strategy Game — With David Cahn
- Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth: Our Path To Frontier AI, Renting Models, Consumer AI's Struggles
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 47 mentions in 18 episodes 3 per episode
- NVIDIA VP Rev Lebaredian Talks Plan To Build AI That Understands The Real World
- Tim Cook’s Final Year?, Big Tech Horse Race, Anthropic’s Profitability Push
- OpenAI’s Risky Browser Bet, Amazon’s Mass Automation Plan, Clippy’s Back
- Gruber Slams Apple's Siri Failure, Tech Stocks In Freefall, Vibecoding & OpenAI's Agents
- Google Pushes OpenAI, Bezos Returns, AI’s No. 1 Hit
- Sora 2 & AI’s Slop Era, Death Of The Creator Economy?, Apple’s SmartGlasses Roadmap
- $100 Million AI Engineers, Vending Machine Claude, Legend Of Soham
- Google DeepMind CTO: Advancing AI Frontier, New Reasoning Methods, Video Generation’s Potential
- 10 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 15 mentions in 6 episodes 3 per episode
- Why Meta Wants To Build Artificial General Intelligence — With Joelle Pineau, VP of Meta AI Research
- Anthropic's Co-Founder on AI Agents, General Intelligence, and Sentience — With Jack Clark
- Is Generative AI Plateauing?, Booming Bluesky, Apple’s Smart Glasses Play
- Meta's Chief Technology Officer On Its Augmented Reality Dreams — With Andrew Bosworth
- Yubo Wants To Replace Performative Social Media With Real Time Social Discovery
- Predicting AI’s Next Advances — With Suhail Doshi
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2022 3 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Yann LeCun, oldest first
Dec 10, 2021 neutral
Dec 10, 2021 bullish
LeCun: Joint-embedding self-supervised learning is AI's best shot for world models
“I'm really excited about this area of research because I think it's the germ. I think it's our best shot as to you know, a path towards learning, you know, getting machines to learn abstract representations you know, and more predictive models. Where those pre…”
Dec 10, 2021 negative
Dec 10, 2021 negative
Dec 10, 2021 negative
Dec 10, 2021 neutral
LeCun: Conscious perception is a 100-millisecond forward prediction
“In fact, your perception of the world is not the world as it is. It's the world as it's going to be, because there is, you know, about a hundred millisecond delay between what you see and how your brain interprets what it is. So so in fact your brain predicts …”
Dec 10, 2021 bearish
LeCun: Existing video prediction AI models fail beyond a fraction of a second
“There's a lot of systems that attempt to do video prediction and basically attempt to learn representations of the world that are in an abstract way can learn to predict what's going to happen in the video in the long term. They all work within a few frames of…”
Dec 10, 2021 neutral
LeCun: Engineers cannot directly build intelligence, machines must learn it
“There is no intelligence without learning. And in the engineering world, it's almost true as well. And it's probably because I'm either lazy or not smart enough to, that I think that as human engineers, we cannot actually directly conceive and construct an int…”
Dec 10, 2021 bullish
LeCun: World models, not more data, will solve AI common sense
“So I think this is not going to be solved in my opinion by you know, more tweaks on the architectures and more training data and things like this. I mean, it may be mitigated, but I think it's not going to be fixed by that. I think it's going to be fixed by sy…”
Dec 10, 2021 positive
LeCun: Self-Supervised Learning Forms the Bulk of Natural and Machine Intelligence
“Most of what we learn as humans and animals and in, in the future that machine will learn is learned in this kind of self-supervised manner, basically by watching the world go by and by, you know, taking an action once in a while, but in a, you know, non-task …”
Dec 10, 2021 positive
Dec 10, 2021 bearish
LeCun: Supervised and reinforcement learning do not reflect biological learning
“The type of learning that we are currently able to reproduce in machine, which is supervised learning and reinforcement learning do not seem to Reflect what we observe in humans and animals. There is another type of learning, another paradigm of learning that …”
Jan 25, 2023 positive
LeCun: AI models should legally be allowed to emulate artistic styles
“Human artists are
Absolutely authorized to get inspired and straight down copy someone else's style.
that happens absolutely all the time in in art.
And so would it make sense to apply a different rule for, let's call them artificial artists, right?
That, tha…”
Jan 25, 2023 neutral
Jan 25, 2023 bearish
Mar 19, 2025 negative
Mar 19, 2025 positive
LeCun: Meta's V-JEPA exhibits physical common sense by detecting impossible events
“And you measure the prediction error as you show the video to the system. And when something impossible occurs, the prediction error goes, goes through the roof. And so you can detect if the system has integrated some idea of what, you know, is possible physic…”
Mar 19, 2025 bearish
LeCun: Pixel-level video generation will not solve AI world understanding
“Is the right way to approach this problem to train better and better video generation systems? And my answer to this is absolutely no. The problem of understanding the world does not go through the solution to the, to generating video at the pixel level.”
Nov 24, 2025 neutral
Kantrowitz: Yann LeCun left Meta to launch a Meta-funded AI startup
“Jan LeCun has left. Inevitable. I'm not going to even take too much credit because the most likely thing ever, most likely prediction I've ever made yet. He's gonna start his own startup. Looks like Facebook is gonna fund it. So in part.”
Feb 23, 2026 bullish
Levie: Altman's 2028 superintelligence timeline is totally reasonable
“I think that, that there's kind of, that seems to be totally reasonable based on the trajectory that we're on. And I would bet that, that Sam has an even a far higher bar for what his definition of, you know, intellectual or whatever the term was, then even I …”