Yann LeCun, a legend in AI, thinks LLMs are nearly obsolete

Ask Yann LeCun—Meta’s chief AI scientist, Turing Award winner, NYU data scientist and one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence—about the future of large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, Meta’s Llama and Anthropic’s Claude, and his answer might startle you: He believes LLMs will be largely obsolete within five years.

“The path that my colleagues and I are on at [Facebook AI Research] and NYU, if we can make this work within three to five years, we’ll…