Reports suggest Yann Le Cun, one of the “godfathers of AI”, is leaving Meta after over a decade pioneering artificial intelligence research at the company. Le Cun no longer believes that scaling up large language models of the kind that power ChatGPT will lead to superhuman intelligence. Instead, he’s betting on “world models”, AI that learns more like a baby than a bot. FRANCE 24’s Peter O’Brien breaks down what it means for the future of AI.
