Yann LeCunTuring Award laureate, NYU professor and former Meta chief AI scientist; the leading sceptic of LLM-driven AGI timelines.
I think the shelf life of the current paradigm is fairly short, probably three to five years.
World Economic Forum, Davos (reported by TechCrunch) · Jan 23, 2025 · source · archived snapshot
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The current large language model paradigm will be superseded as the core of frontier AI systems by 2030.
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Sounded fairly sure
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due Jan 23, 2030 (our reading)
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Hit if by January 2030 the leading frontier systems are built around a different architecture than autoregressive LLMs (for example world models or JEPA-style systems), as described by the labs themselves. Miss if LLM-centred systems still lead.
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It's going to take years before we can get everything here to work, if not a decade.
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Yann LeCun
Turing Award laureate, NYU professor and former Meta chief AI scientist; the leading sceptic of LLM-driven AGI timelines.
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