Walt BaldwinApr 10

Yann LeCun stops at Brown on his 'Water is Wet' world tour.

"There's literally hundreds of billions invested in an industry that basically is counting on the fact that LLMs [are] going to reach human-level intelligence,” he said. “It's complete BS.”

#WaterIsWet #BearsShitInWoods #AI

https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-04-01/yann-lecun-artificial-intelligence-pioneer

In lecture at Brown, Yann LeCun discusses a new approach to AI

No stranger to controversy, AI pioneer Yann LeCun told a capacity crowd that large language models are not the future of AI and that a new approach is needed if machines are to achieve human-like intelligence.

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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/states-are-struggling-to-meet-their-clean-energy-goals-blame-data-centers
States are struggling to meet their clean energy goals. Blame data centers

Nevada's largest utility says it will need three times the electricity required to power Las Vegas just to handle proposed data centers — and it probably can't do that without fossil fuels.

PBS News
Apr 11 at 2:25amWeb