LeCun: AI researchers living in discrete bits and tokens miss how messy the real world is
AlexTensor · x · 2026-09-15
Retweeting a reply to @ericxing, Yann LeCun argued that AI folks who live in the discrete world of bits and tokens don't always understand how incredibly messy the real world is — consistent with his long-standing case that discrete-token models alone can't handle real-world continuity, and why he champions world-model approaches.
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