LeCun: Scaling LLMs to AGI Is 'No Way in Hell'; Researcher Pushes Back
aran_nayebi · x · 2026-09-26
Yann LeCun doubled down on his skepticism: "There's absolutely no way in hell" scaling LLMs yields AGI, calling the "country of geniuses in a data center" idea complete BS. In his view, LLMs are systems with gigantic memory and retrieval ability, not systems that invent solutions to new problems — "it feels like a PhD next to you, but it's not a PhD."
Nathan Calvin pushed back, noting that after the current AI paradigm solved a Millennium Prize Problem, such claims should finally be put to rest.
Related event: LeCun Reiterates Scaling LLMs Alone Will Never Reach AGI(8 posts)→
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