LeCun rebuts Jack Clark's IMF singularity talk: not every point on an exponential is a singularity
ylecun · x · 2026-10-18
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark announced an IMF talk arguing the singularity has begun and discussing the choices ahead. Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun publicly pushed back: "It really has not, though. Unless you get fooled into thinking that every point on an exponential curve is a singularity." Another public disagreement between heavyweight figures on AGI timelines.
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