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Yann LeCun

French researcher, a pioneer of convolutional neural networks, which taught machines to recognise images. For a long time chief AI scientist at Meta, he believes that language models will not be enough and argues in favour of "world models".

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Turing Award 2018 with Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, he is the most optimistic of the three "godfathers of AI" about its risks.

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