LeCun reaffirms autoregressive LLMs won't reach human-level AI, argues for search in continuous representation space
Scobleizer · x · 2026-09-21
Responding to Geoffrey Hinton's AI-danger campaign, Yann LeCun restates his claim that autoregressive LLMs alone won't lead to human-level AI. He argues current reasoning relies on non-autoregressive search done inefficiently in token space, while human-like reasoning should search a continuous representation space — a direction he says the industry is moving toward. He also notes current self-improvement methods only work where outputs can be scored without humans, such as math, code, and simulatable scenarios.
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