Debate Erupts Over LeCun's Claim That LLMs Can't Self-Correct

Community members push back on Yann LeCun's autoregressive error-compounding critique, arguing the math applies to humans too and that LLMs can be trained to spot and correct their own token errors.

2026-09-26 ~ 2026-09-26 · 4 related posts

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