Overview
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LLM Limitations: Current language models cannot truly reason, plan, or understand the physical world—they're sophisticated retrieval systems, not genuine problem-solvers capable of inventing solutions to new problems.
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Infrastructure Investment: Most current AI spending is for inference infrastructure to serve billions of users, which remains justified even without paradigm shifts in AI capabilities.
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Path Forward: Achieving human-level AI requires systems that understand the physical world, have persistent memory, and can reason and plan—capabilities that may emerge in 3-5 years through distributed research efforts.
Takeaways
Yann LeCun shared this perspective in a wide-ranging interview. He emphasizes that no single startup will discover AGI's "secret"—progress will come from the entire research community sharing ideas openly.
"If you think that there is some startup somewhere with five people who has discovered the secret of AGI and you should invest five billion in them, you're making a huge mistake."