LeCun lists seven real-world AI wins to push back on 'all AI is garbage' claims
ylecun · x · 2026-10-08
Yann LeCun pushed back on blanket AI dismissal on X with a seven-point rebuttal: tumor detection in mammograms, driving systems that cut collisions by 40%, spam/scam filtering, detection of foreign influence operations, visual descriptions for blind users, machine translation across cultures, and AI assistance for doctors, researchers and journalists. His takeaway: don't throw the baby out with the bathwater — acknowledging risks shouldn't mean denying AI's proven benefits.
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