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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yann LeCun is not a good person, but at least he's significantly smarter than Elon

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish he was even smarter so that he would choose not to play chess with a pigeon.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I really don't mind him making Musk look like an idiot

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

He bought a blue checkmark.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know nothing about him, what did he do?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

For starters, he’s both French and works for Meta. 😏

But beyond that, from a professional perspective this guy has pioneered so much stuff that we take for granted today; like check scanning and OCR. I mean he is touted as one of the godfathers of ai.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yann_LeCun

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

French

Moeder van God...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

okay. that doesn't tell me much about why he's a bad person though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Fr*nch?!? 🤮