Yann LeCun warns AI industry is “LLM-piled,” explains why he quit Meta – Firstpost

The former chief Scientist of MetaAI Yann LeCun, also considered “Godfather of AI,” has called on the tech giants, describing the industry as “LLM-piled.” He warned of the tech and talent war between tech giants where they were stealing each other’s AI engineers so that they can afford to do something different.  

“The AI industry is completely LLM-pilled, as they say. And in Silicon Valley, everybody is working on the same thing. They’re all digging the same trench. They are stealing each other’s engineers so that they can’t afford to do something different, because if they start going on the tangent. They’re all doing the same thing,” he said in a talk whose video is being shared on social media.

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Why he quit Meta?

Yann also clarifies why he left Meta and what insisted him to quit Meta. He criticised the AI industry for overly using large language models (LLMs), emphasising that this is not enough to build superintelligence.  

Yann reported that the engineers are chasing the AI race and same with Meta’s engineers, which prompted him to quit the company and focus on predictive “world models.”

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“And it’s one huge reason I left meta, right, because Meta also became very LLM-pilled. You know with sort of recent research, and it’s fine, you know, it’s a strategic decision that I cannot imagine that we can build agentic systems without those systems having an ability to predict in advance, what the consequences of their actions are going to be,” he declared.

He also pointed out reliance on machines and the true agentic system, where he stated that one can take decisions on their behalf.  

“We cannot build true agentic systems without the ability to predict the consequences of actions,

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just like humans do. Do we know that we can predict the consequences? Consequences of our actions. And that’s where it allows us to plan,” he noted.

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