LeCun amplifies criticism of AI giants' garden leaves and skipped education funding
ylecun · x · 2026-10-08
LeCun boosted a critique by Nando de Freitas: the billion and trillion dollar AI companies that academia helped build over the past two decades are (1) enforcing 6-12 month garden leaves on the very scientists trained for them, and (2) declining to fund education efforts like @DeepIndaba and @KhipuAI. The original thread stresses that before NVIDIA, Google and cloud GPUs got into AI, professors and students built the field's foundations.
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