LeCun, who previously served as Meta's chief AI scientist, didn't mince words. "xAI is kind of a failure, frankly, because the founding team has" departed, he said,...
    • Windex007@lemmy.worldEnglish
      281·
      2 months ago

      You shouldn’t respect anyone’s opinion: you hear the opinion and judge the contents on it’s own merit. Everyone you respect will have the odd terrible take, and people you loathe will periodically have a banger thought.

      A ton of Dawkins fan boys are huffing copium since the man decided Claude is conscious (and for some incelly reason a woman). A lot of MAGA asshats are trying to torch data centers.

      If you offload your own critical evaluation of ideas merely to an adjudication of the speaker… honestly I hear it no differently than “because chatGPT said”.

      This is just the laziest ad homium. Tell me, what do you think about the content? I am genuinely curious, and that analysis is 1000x more valuable.

      • eleijeep@piefed.socialEnglish
        87·
        2 months ago

        He worked there for 12 years and left just over 1 year ago. It has been abundantly apparent what kind of company Facebook/Meta is for a very long time and he has no excuse.

        Fuck him.

          • Deestan@lemmy.worldEnglish
            43·
            2 months ago

            Apologies. I thought it was clear from context. Here are some examples of his bad judgement:

            “one of the "Godfathers of AI … who previously served as Meta’s chief AI scientist”