1. I never said LLMs were not useful. They are, particularly with all the bells and whistles that are being added to them. I use them.
— Yann LeCun (@ylecun) April 24, 2026
2. A robot-rich future can't be built with AIs that don't understand the physical world and don't anticipate the consequences of their actions.…
LOL!
Of course he's right about LLMs, especially about all those bells and whistles. Those add symbolic control to the core neural net capabilities of LLMs. And of course he's right about the need to predict what's happening in the physical world. Robots need that and LLMs cannot provide it. Next-token prediction is a different beast, even if those tokens are about things happening in the physical world.
Yann LeCun "2. A robot-rich future can't be built with AIs that don't understand the physical world and don't anticipate the consequences of their actions"
ReplyDelete$100m to start. Nvida rises. UAE controls. Yann LeCun's vision overrides his ethics. He obviously couldn't care less about his paymasters record.
"Group 42 Holding Ltd, doing business as G42, is an Emirati artificial intelligence (AI) development holding company founded in 2018 and based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. It focuses on AI development in industries including government, healthcare, finance, oil and gas, aviation, and hospitality.
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"The company is chaired by the National Security Advisor of the UAE, Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who is also its controlling shareholder.[2][3]
Peng Xiao is the Group CEO,[4] former head of Emirati cybersecurity company DarkMatter Group.[5]
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"On May 22, 2025 G42 in collaboration with OpenAI, Oracle, NVIDIA, SoftBank Group and Cisco announced a partnership to build Stargate UAE.[26]
[Note: exacerbating the ai bubble via nested investments]
Controversies
"As of 2019, Group 42 was reportedly the sole registered shareholder of ToTok, a free messaging, video, and voice-calling mobile application. The application was downloaded by users in the Middle East, Asia, Europe, North America, and Africa, within several months. The application was accused of being "used by the government of the United Arab Emirates to try to track every conversation, movement, relationship, appointment, sound and image of those who install it", in a New York Times expos̩ in December 2019.[27] Following the allegations, the application was removed by Apple and Google from their application stores. The CEO of G42 has been leading Pegasus Рa subsidiary of DarkMatter, an Emirati security firm, which received scrutiny over the hiring of former CIA and NSA officials to spy on Americans, dissidents, and political rivals. The company denied having any connection with DarkMatter.[28][29]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G42_(company)