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minus-squaretomiant@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down7·edit-23 hours agoGetting Smarter AI < Making More Money Is there more money in smarter AI or in manipulating people’s voting patterns with the tools you’ve got? I saw Suck at Trump’s inauguration, I didn’t see this Chinese feller there.
minus-squarenymnympseudonym@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·2 hours ago this Chinese feller He’s French, actually. This is one of the three people that basically invented Deep Learning . One of the others is Geoffrey Hinton, who got the Nobel Prize in 2024 No matter what you think of LeCun or his opinions… he’s damn well worth listening to with attention and respect.
Getting Smarter AI < Making More Money
Is there more money in smarter AI or in manipulating people’s voting patterns with the tools you’ve got?
I saw Suck at Trump’s inauguration, I didn’t see this Chinese feller there.
He’s French, actually.
This is one of the three people that basically invented Deep Learning . One of the others is Geoffrey Hinton, who got the Nobel Prize in 2024
No matter what you think of LeCun or his opinions… he’s damn well worth listening to with attention and respect.