The Pioneer
The frontier and an appetite for the unknown, goes first.
Yann LeCun exemplifies The Pioneer, a leader whose authority rests on opening territory others later occupy. His foundational work on convolutional neural networks in the 1980s and 1990s predated the field's commercial embrace by decades, and he persisted through periods when neural approaches were widely dismissed. That long-horizon conviction earned him the Turing Award alongside Bengio and Hinton.
“That means that there's a lot of details in the second video clips that are irrelevant. Let's say video clip consists in a camera panning the scene. There's going to be a piece of that room that is going to be revealed. And I can somewhat predict what that room is going to look like.”
“That's one of the big questions. How do you do that? I mean, what's kind of another thing that really is. Stupid about, I shouldn't say stupid, but like simplistic about current approaches to self supervised running in NLP in text is that not only do you represent a giant distribution over words, but for multiple words that are missing, t…”
“The west half of Germany, because you can't go 40 years in the east side or Denmark or other countries. And they use Facebook just as much. And they're not getting more polarized. They're getting less polarized. So if you want to look for a causal relationship there, you can find a scapegoat, but you can find a cause.”
“The way to understand it is to try to reproduce it with artifacts that you build because you know what's essential to it when you try to build it. The same way I've used this analogy before with you, I believe, the same way we only started to understand aerodynamics when we started building airplanes.”
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