Yann LeCun

"We don't have robots that are nearly as good at understanding the physical world as a rat."

"They're not a path towards human level or human-like intelligence, or even animal-like intelligence, because they cannot deal with real world data."

"LLMs are largely hopeless for robotics."

"The idea that you’re going to extend the capabilities of LLMs [large language models] to the point that they’re going to have human-level intelligence is complete nonsense."

"It's true that [LLMs] are becoming really good at generating code, and it's true that they are probably going to become even more useful in a wide area of applications where code generation can help."

"We want to become the main provider of intelligent systems."

"You need a domestic robot to have some level of common sense to really understand the physical world."

"The fantasy that AI systems are going to replace us because they are smarter is just false."

"Singapore is a very important location for us. We have quite a lot of links in Singapore, and partners here and in Asia generally."

"We already have prototypes that basically have some level of common sense."