Yann LeCun (@yannlecun)

Ilya Sutskever discussed the boundary between understanding and awareness, as what comes next, in his latest test of time talk at NeurIPS 2024. To understand is to predict things accurately. To be self-aware is to be able to predict accurately with an understanding of what it is and what its environment is.

A new paper in Nature found that you cannot, in fact, train AIs on AI-generated data and expect them to continue improving. What happens is actually that the model collapses and ends up producing nonsense.

Artificial general intelligence would be a major turning point in the relationship between humans and machines—what many predict would be the most significant single event in the history of the human race. It’s a milestone that I believe we should not cross unless we have first definitively solved all problems of control and safety. But given the r

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