Yann LeCun: AI has repeated the same mistake for 70 years — task performance isn't intelligence
haider1 · x · 2026-11-02
Yann LeCun restates his critique of AI capability narratives: for 70 years people in AI have made the same mistake — assuming that a machine doing tasks humans consider intellectually complex must be smarter than humans. He argues this is completely false: computers are superhuman at many tasks, yet we remain far from machines with human or even animal-level intelligence, implying task performance alone doesn't equal general intelligence.
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