This has been said a thousand times before, but allow me to add my own voice: the era of humans writing code is over. Disturbing for those of us who identify as SWEs, but no less true. That's not to say SWEs don't have work to do, but writing syntax directly is not it.
Yann is just plain incorrect here, he’s confusing general intelligence with universal intelligence.
Brains are the most exquisite and complex phenomena we know of in the universe (so far), and they are in fact extremely general.
Obviously one can’t circumvent the no free lunch theorem so in a practical and finite system there always has to be some degree of specialisation around the target distribution that is being learnt.
But the point about generality is that in theory, in the Turing Machine sense, the architecture of such a general system is capable of learning anything computable given enough time and memory (and data), and the human brain (and AI foundation models) are approximate Turing Machines.
Finally, with regards to Yann's comments about chess players, it’s amazing that humans could have invented chess in the first place (and all the other aspects of modern civilization from science to 747s!) let alone get as brilliant at it as someone like Magnus. He may not be strictly optimal (after all he has finite memory and limited time to make a decision) but it’s incredible what he and we can do with our brains given they were evolved for hunter gathering.
一些精彩金句和 insights
关于物理与投资:"Physics is the study of that which has predictive value."(物理学是研究具有预测价值事物的学科。)
关于人生目标:"Aim to make more than you take."(立志做到给予多于索取。)
关于真理:"Those who believe in absurdities can commit atrocities."(那些相信荒谬之事的人,往往能犯下暴行。)
关于模拟理论:"The most interesting outcome is the most likely outcome."(最有趣的结局,往往就是最可能发生的结局。)
关于金钱:"If you are stranded on a desert island with a trillion dollars, it’s not useful because there’s no labor to allocate."(如果你带着一万亿美元流落荒岛,那钱毫无用处,因为没有劳动力供你分配。)
关于历史:"History is a set of lies agreed upon? No, mostly it was farming."(历史是达成共识的谎言?不,历史大部分时间其实只是在种地。)
关于友谊:"Fair weather friends are useless."(顺境时的朋友是没用的。)