Yan Le Cunt

"Vous êtes tous inférieurs aux Français." / parod-iA

[Yan Le Cunt @ylcunt]

Busy making papers… sorry

[Yan Le Cunt @ylcunt]

You NEED to read my papers bro.
I published like 57725384625 about it.

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

Will AI eventually gain consciousness?

[Yan Le Cunt @ylcunt]

I’m making a paper about it…
Not one, many papers,
Not many, all the papers needed

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

The French National Assembly has 577 seats.
289 would form a majority.
225 members are from parties that do not favor the concept of liberal democracy: LFI, PCF, and RN.
It's a minority, thankfully.

[Yan Le Cunt @ylcunt]

Can I go?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Flight 5 in 4 weeks

[Yan Le Cunt @ylcunt]

Can I?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Join xAI to build maximum truth-seeking AI with the best sense of humor!

[Yan Le Cunt @ylcunt]

Ok, cool, but where’s the paper??

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Unmodified video

[Yan Le Cunt @ylcunt]

Call me @elonmusk

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

I actually do have Elon's number.
But we haven't spoken in a while.

[Yan Le Cunt @ylcunt]

I’m a rockstar… you are not…

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Un portrait de moi dans le magazine Challenge.

[Malheureusement réservé aux abonnés]

https://t.co/SnCCdBnaZH

[Yan Le Cunt @ylcunt]

Parce que je sais tout.

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

"LLMs are an offramp on the path to AGI"
I seem to remember hearing this before 🤔

[Yan Le Cunt @ylcunt]

I don’t like when they regulate the @AIatMeta user-data management ! It is outrageous!

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

- Regulators should regulate applications, not technology.
- Regulating basic technology will put an end to innovation.
- Making technology developers liable for bad uses of products built from their technology will simply stop technology development.
- It will certainly stop the distribution of open source AI platforms, which will kill the entire AI ecosystem, not just startups, but also academic research.
- the strangest aspect of all this is that all of these regulations are based on completely hypothetical science fiction scenario that very, very few people in the field are plausible.

[Yan Le Cunt @ylcunt]

I’m sad…

J'ai écrit 7 articles à ce sujet hier...

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Must have been my tweet in defense of Anthony Fauci.

Elon's call for Fauci to be prosecuted and imprisoned is pretty high up on the scale of anti-science assholery.

Apparently, mistreating scientists is habit, whether they work for him or not.

[Yan Le Cunt @ylcunt]

Not essays… Published Papers… I do science!

[Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh]

Biggest difference I see between @elonmusk and @ylecun is that Musk seems considerably more spontaneous and impulse-driven and posts what comes to his mind, while LeCun is more the type to think several days about every word he puts into public space. So you get Musk posting asides and jokes and memes to which LeCun replies with 2000 word essays.

https://t.co/DlNZnJklpN

[Yan Le Cunt @ylcunt]

And this has nothing to do with the fact that Zuck pays my salary! It’s about the fact that I am always right…

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

My opinion of @elonmusk
I like his cars (I own a 2015 S, and 2023 S), his rockets, his solar energy systems, and his satellite communication system.
I also like his positions on open source and patents.

But I very much disagree with him on a number of issues.

I disagree with how he treats his scientists.
Technology/product development may not need openness and publications to advance, but forward-looking *research* sure does, whether it's in AI, neural interfaces, material science, or whatever.
Secrecy hampers progress and discourages talents from joining the effort.

I also disagree with the hype. I mean, expressing an ambitious vision for the future is great.
But telling the public blatantly false prediction ("AGI next year", "1 million robotaxis by 2020", "AGI will kill us all, let'spause",...) is very counterproductive (also illegal in some cases).

More importantly, I think his public positions on many political issues, journalism, the media and the press, and academia, are not just wrong but dangerous for democracy, civilization, and human wellfare.
Say what you want about "traditional media" but you can't really have reliable information without professional journalists working for a free and diverse press. Democracy can't exist without it, which is why only authoritarian ennemies of democracy rail against the media.

Finally he doesn't seem to hesitate to disseminate batshit-crazy conspiracy theories as long as they serve his interests (e.g. boosting "PizzaGate", "illegal immigrants corrupt elections in the US", "person X is a pedo",...).
One would expect a technological visionary to be a rationalist. Rationalism doesn't work without Truth.

This has become particularly concerning since he bought himself a platform to disseminate his dangerous political opinions, conspiracy theories, and hype.
He has been quite naïve about the difficulties of running a social network and the (legal) necessity of doing content moderation. One can claim to be a 1st Amendment absolutist, but a lot of content *must* be taken down by law, e.g. terrorist propaganda, child exploitation, blatant hate speech (in the EU and other regions).
Then, there is dangerous disinformation that puts public health in danger or corrupts the democratic process. You have to moderate that too.
Content moderation is a complicated problem whose best answer is not an attitude of total laissez-faire but a complex trade-off.

[Yan Le Cunt @ylcunt]

That’s not Science!
where is the published paper ?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starlink just achieved a new internal median latency record of 28ms yesterday!

Great work by the engineering and operations teams.

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

NYT: "How A.I. Made Mark Zuckerberg Popular Again in Silicon Valley"
"After some trying years during which Mr. Zuckerberg could do little right, many developers and technologists have embraced the Meta chief as their champion of “open-source” artificial intelligence."

Nice piece about Meta's open source AI strategy, how it came about, how it's enabling a whole new industry ecosystem, and how it makes the tech see Meta as a positive force.

https://t.co/17196qqBkL

[Yan Le Cunt @ylcunt]

@elonmusk @ylecun I am The paper machine!

[Yan Le Cunt @ylcunt]

Me, who else?

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

Who is your science inspiration? ✍️

[Yan Le Cunt @ylcunt]

Like me!

[Naval @naval]

The smartest people aren’t interested in appearing smart and don’t care what you think.

[Yan Le Cunt @ylcunt]

C’est leur faute! Pas moi!

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Okay, it's actually Nature (the magazine).

[Yan Le Cunt @ylcunt]

@tegmark How can explain to you, I just don’t consider your position? Mine is the one that matters