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Chief AI Scientist / Meta / Silver Professor of Computer Science / New York University
Yann LeCun is a French-American computer scientist and one of the founding fathers of deep learning, alongside Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton. He currently serves as the Chief AI Scientist at Meta (formerly Facebook) and is a Silver Professor at New York University (NYU). LeCun is best known for his work on convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which are foundational to modern computer vision and AI applications. He was awarded the 2018 Turing Award for his pioneering work in deep learning.
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Pioneer of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)
Yann LeCun is a foundational figure in Artificial Intelligence, renowned for his work on deep learning and convolutional neural networks. He holds dual roles as Chief AI Scientist at Meta and a Silver Professor at NYU, driving both industrial and academic research in the field.
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ViewAchievement unlocked: A 100-meter portrait of me was displayed on the Burj Khalifa in Dubai tonight. I'm in Dubai for the World Government Summit.
View- NYC when I left: rain. - Paris when I left: rain. - Dubai when I arrived: two solid days of rain and thunderstorms. - local guy: restaurants, government buildings, and some roads are shut down. - m
ViewI'm old enough to remember when "performant" was not a word in English. But it was widely used in French for as long as I can remember. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=performant&year_
ViewA big bunch of nails in the coffin of the idea that open source AI models are more dangerous than closed ones. And a huge warning to regulators who are on the way to throw the AI baby with the regulat
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