#258 – Yann LeCun: Dark Matter of Intelligence and Self-Supervised Learning

Yann LeCun is the Chief AI Scientist at Meta, professor at NYU,
Turing Award winner, and one of the seminal researchers in the
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the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) - Introduction (06:58)
- Self-supervised learning (17:17) - Vision vs language (23:08) -
Statistics (28:55) - Three challenges of machine learning (34:45) -
Chess (42:47) - Animals and intelligence (52:31) - Data
augmentation (1:13:51) - Multimodal learning (1:25:40) -
Consciousness (1:30:25) - Intrinsic vs learned ideas (1:34:37) -
Fear of death (1:42:29) - Artificial Intelligence (1:56:18) -
Facebook AI Research (2:12:56) - NeurIPS (2:29:08) - Complexity
(2:37:33) - Music (2:42:28) - Advice for young people