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OpenAI's Dan Roberts: Why AI Can Now Make Discoveries
- ▶ 24:50 Matt Turck Switching to RL in modern LLM systems, so there used to be a saying, which I think comes from Yann LeChan, that RL was the cherry on top of the cake, but I think you have argued that things have
OpenAI's Yann Dubois: Why AI Progress Suddenly Feels Real
- ▶ 39:59 Yann Dubois Yeah, and, and like, for example, Yann Lequin famously, like, gives, like, this metaphor of, like, oh, the, the root force is just like the cherry on the top.
Voice AI’s Big Moment: Top Researcher on Why Everything Is Changing (Neil Zeghidour, Gradium AI)
- ▶ 14:22 Neil Zeghidour Which was about unsupervised learning, which was already pretty cool, and I just wanted to do it, and so I pretended that I was passionate about language, and I got the internship, and then Yann Lequin opened Facebook Paris, and I was able…
- ▶ 23:09 Neil Zeghidour It was also obvious for me that, and for this, I think I agree 100% with Yann Lequin, the fact that what made AI dynamic and get from ImageNet in 2012 to where we are right now today,
- ▶ 1:22:01 Neil Zeghidour I mean, Jan Lequin is one of them, obviously, but
Jeremy Howard on Building 5,000 AI Products with 14 People (Answer AI Deep-Dive)
- ▶ 14:07 Jeremy Howard You know, I think something that we've heard from lots of folks, like most notably, I guess, Jan Lacoon, 2 times in the scene
Top AI Researcher on GPT 4.5, DeepSeek and Agentic RAG | Douwe Kiela, CEO, Contextual AI
- ▶ 19:21 Douwe Kiela but, so when the, when the Transformers paper came out, um, so at FAIR we were working on very similar ideas, obviously, I guess, a bit more in the, like, convolutions space because, because of Jan LeCun's background, and I guess, like,…
What You MUST Know About AI Engineering | Chip Huyen, Author of “AI Engineering”
- ▶ 1:07:34 Chip Huyen Because we have people like on the one-sided spectrum, like Yang Le-kun from Meta, who's incredible scientist, but he also, he also said that's like LLM, like autoregressive LLM just cannot plan.
Superintelligence, Bubbles And Big Bets: AI Investing in 2024 | Matt Turck & Aman Kabeer, FirstMark
- ▶ 32:25 Matt Turck Uh, and look, but, but, by the way, on the AGI front, this, like, that whole discussion was kind of fun, um, which is that, uh, everybody's talking about AGI, so, uh, you know, uh, uh, certainly, uh, some old men, but, like, Elon said we…
How to Ship Reliable GenAI Apps: Humanloop CEO on LLM Observability, RAG & Rapid Iteration
- ▶ 29:34 unnamed speaker And I've seen people like Jan LeCun say, oh, but we already have search engines.
Secure, Private, Powerful: Dust’s Vision for Enterprise AI Agents | Stanislas Polu
- ▶ 46:24 Matt Turck Uh, so Yann Lacan, who's, uh, you know, obviously one of the godfathers of, of deep learning and, and, and French, although he's been living in New York for a very long time.
Beyond ChatGPT: Ori Goshen’s Playbook for Building Neuro-Symbolic LLMs
- ▶ 15:34 Matt Turck Um, and I, you know, I believe there was like, there's been like this whole debate between me on the con and, uh, Gary Marcus, uh, on potentially the advantages and drawbacks of departing and how to combine them with other things.
Build and Deploy AI with Pytorch | Lightning AI Founder & CEO, William Falcon
- ▶ 3:57 William Falcon Um, and he's, uh, gen and tech now, uh, doing amazing things, and then Jan LeCun, who everyone's assertive as well, um, and they're my PhD advisors, and so there, I took this project that I had, and I started using it for my PhD again, and…
- ▶ 16:52 William Falcon You know, some of the early stuff that Jan was doing was always open source, and in fact, I think that's why FAIR is probably one of the best open source labs today, because of that DNA.
Fireside Chat: Jerome Pesenti (Head of AI, Facebook) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 2:15 Jerome Pesenti So the AI team, the AI effort, actually at Facebook, was launched six years ago with Yann Mokun, uh, joining the team, you know, recruited by Mark. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:09 Jerome Pesenti The second thing that I feel very passionate about, and that's something I was very passionate before joining Facebook, and I joined people at Facebook, like Jan or Joelle Pinault, who are very passionate about it, is really this idea of…
A New Approach to Machine Intelligence // Ben Vigoda, Gamalon (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 5:17 Ben Vigoda Um, there's people starting to talk about this, including Jeff Hinton, who helped invent machine learning, uh, deep learning, and including Jan LeCun, who also helped invent, uh, deep learning.
Make AI Less Mysterious // Serkan Piantino, Spell (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 0:22 Serkan Piantino And, ah, just a little bit of background on me, as Matt mentioned, ah, most recently, I, ah, co-led Facebook AI Research with Jan, who was here, ah, at a previous event, and, ah, founded the Facebook New York office, ah, previously worked…
AI and a Different Type of Competitive Advantage // Omar Tawakol, Voicera (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 16:36 Omar Tawakol Um, my co-founder ran the applied AI group for Facebook reporting to Jan LeCun in, in Palo Alto, so he brought in engineers from LinkedIn, from Apple, from Google, uh, from Amazon, uh, so it's pretty heavy, uh, kind of machine learning…
Artificial Intelligence at Facebook // Antoine Bordes, Facebook [FirstMark's Data Driven]
- ▶ 4:54 Antoine Bordes It's actually, so, this is a video from my boss, Yann Lequin, 1993. 3 times in the scene
Richard Socher, MetaMind // Deep Learning for Enterprise (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 15:50 Matt Turck Um, we had, uh, Professor Yann Le Con, currently, uh, head of AI at Facebook a few months ago, and, uh, it sounded like his version of the story was, was probably that he had, my words, not his, but totally in obscurity for decades. 2 times in the scene
Matthew Zeiler, Clarifai // Data Driven #31 // Nov 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 3:54 Matthew Zeiler Uh, Jeff Hinton, um, from University of Toronto, and Yann McCann from NYU, where I studied. 2 times in the scene