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Three decades ago, Yann LeCun, while at Bell Labs, formalized an approach to machine learning called convolutional neural networks that would prove to be profoundly productive in solving tasks such as ...

Yann LeCun, one of the founding figures of modern artificial intelligence and a pivotal force at Meta Platforms , said on Wednesday he plans to leave the company at the end of the year to launch a new ...

The launch of R1, an AI model by the Chinese startup DeepSeek, recently sent shockwaves through the technology world. R1 is a “reasoning” model—the most cutting-edge type of large language model (LLM) ...

Thirty years ago, Yann LeCun pioneered the use of a particular form of machine learning, called the convolutional neural network, or CNN, while at the University of Toronto. That approach, moving a ...

Artificial intelligence has to go in new directions if it's to realize the machine equivalent of common sense, and three of its most prominent proponents are in violent agreement about exactly how to ...

Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect that Yann LeCun's work touches on ML research previously conducted by German computer scientist Jürgen Schmidhuber. In the midst of the heated ...

Facebook is building a research lab dedicated to the new breed of artificial intelligence, after hiring one of the preeminent researchers in the field: New York University professor Yann LeCun. With a ...

One of the godfathers of deep learning pulls together old ideas to sketch out a fresh path for AI, but raises as many questions as he answers. Around a year and a half ago, Yann LeCun realized he had ...