"...learn kind of basic things in mathematics, in modeling, mathematics that can be connected with reality....although you should learn philosophy ...this is done by learning things that have a long shelf life"

"... if you were starting your AI career today, what skills and research directions would you focus on? ---  I get a lot this question a lot from young students or parents of future students. I think you should learn things that have a long shelf life and you should learn things that help you learn to learn because technology is you know evolving so quickly that you want kind of the ability to learn really quickly. "

After 12 years at Meta, Turing Award winner Yann LeCun is betting his legacy on a radically different vision of AI. In this conversation, he explains why Silicon Valley's obsession with scaling language models is a dead end, and why his new company AMI is building world models that predict in abstract representation space rather than generating pixels.

Here is the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u-DXVADyhc

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