LeCun: Autonomous driving proves achieving the last percent of reliability is hardest
Yann LeCun · Yann LeCun: We Won't Reach AGI By Scaling Up LLMS · May 30, 2025 · at 5:39
Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun compares enterprise AI adoption bottlenecks to historical technology hype cycles, citing the slow progress in full autonomous driving.
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“It's basically you know, why we had super impressive, you know, autonomous driving demos 10 years ago But we still don't have level five self-driving cars, right? It's the last mile that's really difficult so to speak for cars. You know, it's, you know, the last few, that was not deliberate. The, you know, the last few, few percent of reliability, which makes a system practical”
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