LeCun builds the future he believes in while Hinton loops in doom appearances
alexvoica · x · 2026-09-26
alexvoica contrasts two Turing Award winners' approaches: Yann LeCun keeps getting dunked on for calling LLMs a dead end, but he's actively building the alternative he believes in, while Geoffrey Hinton is stuck in a loop of alarmist media appearances. His takeaway: if you care about AI safety, build it rather than just talk about it.
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