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... See more

Even as AI gets better, there are certain kinds of knowledge it still struggles to capture, and may for a long time. Never say never, though. Tacit knowledge - the things you just know without being able to explain - was considered beyond the realm of technology, yet, LLMs approximate many forms of tacit knowledge, which even 7 years back would... See more

The ChatGPT moment transformed society's relationship with AI overnight. From my vantage point, the narrative shifted dramatically from "beware of deepfakes" to "use AI or be left behind." But both perspectives miss something fundamental: AI isn't competing with human intelligence - it's becoming part of how we think, just as writing and... See more