Yann LeCun at Brown University: 'IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN HUMAN-LEVEL AI, DON'T WORK ON LLMs'

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At Brown University's Lemley Leadership Lecture on April 1, LeCun displayed a red all-caps slide urging AI researchers to abandon LLMs and generative models entirely. He asked: 'Where is my domestic robot? Where is my robot that can learn to drive in 20 hours?' His thesis: human-level AI requires real-world sensory data, not language — the core bet behind his $1.03B AMI Labs startup building world models.