Yann LeCun

Yann LeCun

Chief AI Scientist at Meta, Silver Professor at New York University, Turing Award Winner for foundational contributions to deep learning and convolutional neural networks

About

Yann LeCun is a pioneering computer scientist known for his groundbreaking work in artificial intelligence and deep learning.
He is the Chief AI Scientist at Meta, where he leads research in AI to advance its practical applications.
He holds a position as Silver Professor at New York University (NYU), contributing substantially to academia.
In 2018, he was awarded the Turing Award, often considered the 'Nobel Prize of Computing,' for his foundational contributions to convolutional neural networks and their application to computer vision and AI.
LeCun’s work has profoundly influenced modern AI technologies and continues to drive innovation across multiple industries.

Areas of Expertise

AI researcher computer scientist

Recent Podcasts

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Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #416

Topic: Artificial intelligence, its future, and limitations of Large Language Models (LLMs)

02:47:171,229,63916,5801 year ago
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Thumbnail for Yann LeCun: Dark Matter of Intelligence and Self-Supervised Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #258

Yann LeCun: Dark Matter of Intelligence and Self-Supervised Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #258

Topic: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

02:45:11566,4047,3564 years ago
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Thumbnail for Yann LeCun: Deep Learning, ConvNets, and Self-Supervised Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #36

Yann LeCun: Deep Learning, ConvNets, and Self-Supervised Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #36

Topic: Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning

01:15:58197,7454,6576 years ago
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