AI pioneer Yann Le Cun reportedly quits Meta over the future of intelligence

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Reports suggest Yann Le Cun, one of the "godfathers of AI", is leaving Meta after over a decade pioneering artificial intelligence research at Mark Zuckerberg's tech titan. Le Cun says he no longer believes that scaling up large language models of the kind that power ChatGPT will lead to superhuman intelligence. Instead, he is betting on "world models", AI that learns more like a baby than a bot.

On Tech 24, Peter O'Brien breaks down what it means for the future of AI.