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[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago (8 children)

Yann LeCun is not a good person, but at least he's significantly smarter than Elon

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I know nothing about him, what did he do?

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 28 points 6 months ago (3 children)

For starters, he’s both French and works for Meta. 😏

But beyond that, from a professional perspective this guy has pioneered so much stuff that we take for granted today; like check scanning and OCR. I mean he is touted as one of the godfathers of ai.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yann_LeCun

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 11 points 6 months ago

French

Moeder van God...

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 5 points 6 months ago

okay. that doesn't tell me much about why he's a bad person though.

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago

Fr*nch?!? 🤮

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