Yann LeCun comments on robotics: hardware awesome, intelligence amoeba-level
balazskegl · x · 2026-08-21
Balazs Kegl commented on a robotics demo, stating it accurately reflects the state of the art: low-level control and hardware are becoming awesome, but world understanding is nowhere near the intelligence of an amoeba. Yann LeCun was tagged in the discussion.
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