Inside the LeCun debate: his claim is that LLMs are just trajectory imitators
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-26
teortaxesTex explains LeCun's position in the ongoing debate: humans do say "oops I made a mistake," but LeCun doesn't consider LLMs human-like — his argument is that they are "trajectory imitators," which is why the error-compounding critique of autoregression supposedly still stands.
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