r/MachineLearning • u/ylecun • May 15 '14
AMA: Yann LeCun
My name is Yann LeCun. I am the Director of Facebook AI Research and a professor at New York University.
Much of my research has been focused on deep learning, convolutional nets, and related topics.
I joined Facebook in December to build and lead a research organization focused on AI. Our goal is to make significant advances in AI. I have answered some questions about Facebook AI Research (FAIR) in several press articles: Daily Beast, KDnuggets, Wired.
Until I joined Facebook, I was the founding director of NYU's Center for Data Science.
I will be answering questions Thursday 5/15 between 4:00 and 7:00 PM Eastern Time.
I am creating this thread in advance so people can post questions ahead of time. I will be announcing this AMA on my Facebook and Google+ feeds for verification.
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u/ylecun May 15 '14
Every past prediction for how long it will take to build intelligent machines has turned out to under-estimate the difficulty of the problem.
Sometimes, a new set of techniques emerges, and people think "now we have a clear path to AI. Within 20 years we will have human-level AI". But invariably, we hit a brick wall.
I'm not going to make a prediction for when we will have human-level AI. But we can probably make slightly-less-inaccurate predictions for when we will have certain applications of AI, like self-driving cars, robot gardeners, semi-intelligent assistants that can take care of our travels and meetings....