🧠 AI’s $100bn question: The scaling ceiling

LeCun points to four essential characteristics of human intelligence that current AI systems, including LLMs, can’t replicate: reasoning, planning, persistent memory, and understanding the physical world. He stresses that LLMs’ reliance on textual data severely limits their understanding of reality: “We’re easily fooled into thinking they are intel... See more

First order effects of inventions are easy to predict but secondary, tertiary, and n+1 effects are very hard. That’s almost laughable to say about a sector like AI where new research / startups / demos / regulations / firings / resignations / fundings are happening at light speed. Like literally there’s something mind-blowing that happens every wee... See more

Intelligence is moving from human-scale to machine-scale. AI will be to the mind what the automobile was to the city… https://t.co/NcBspApI1t