{"id":470567,"date":"2025-12-25T10:32:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T10:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/470567\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T10:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T10:32:12","slug":"google-ai-ceo-demis-hassabis-calls-meta-ai-chief-scientist-yann-lecun-plain-incorrect-read-his-long-post-on-why-he-thinks-yann-is-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/470567\/","title":{"rendered":"Google AI CEO Demis Hassabis calls Meta AI chief scientist Yann LeCun &#8216;plain incorrect&#8217;, read his long post on why he thinks Yann is &#8216;wrong&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/google-deepmind-ceo-demis-hassabis.jpg\" alt=\"Google AI CEO Demis Hassabis calls Meta AI chief scientist Yann LeCun 'plain incorrect', read his long post on why he thinks Yann is 'wrong'\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> A fresh debate over the future of artificial intelligence (AI) broke out recently among some of the world\u2019s most influential AI leaders. Former Meta AI scientist Yann LeCun in his recent appearance on a podcast said that there is no such thing as general intelligence, arguing that human intelligence itself is not truly general. According to him, human intelligence is highly specialised for the physical world, adding what people perceive as general intelligence is largely an illusion. \u201cWe only seem general because we can\u2019t imagine the problems we\u2019re blind to,\u201d LeCun said. \u201cThis concept of general intelligence\u201d he saidA clip from the podcast was shared on microblogging platform X (formerly Twitter) that caught the attention of Google DeepMind CEO and Nobel Laureate Demis Hassabis who publicly disagreed with LeCun\u2019s views. Calling Yann\u2019s opinion \u201cplain incorrect\u201d, Demis said that he\u2019s confusing general intelligence with universal intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What Demis Hassabis wrote \u2018correcting\u2019 MetaAI Chief Scientist<\/p>\n<p>Quoting an X post with LeCun\u2019s clip, Hassabis wrote:\u201cYann is just plain incorrect here, he\u2019s confusing general intelligence with universal intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Meta\u2019s Secret AI Army: Top Talent Hired from OpenAI, Google &amp; More<\/p>\n<p>Brains are the most exquisite and complex phenomena we know of in the universe (so far), and they are in fact extremely general.Obviously one can\u2019t circumvent the no free lunch theorem so in a practical and finite system there always has to be some degree of specialisation around the target distribution that is being learnt.But the point about generality is that in theory, in the Turing Machine sense, the architecture of such a general system is capable of learning anything computable given enough time and memory (and data), and the human brain (and AI foundation models) are approximate Turing Machines.Finally, with regards to Yann&#8217;s comments about chess players, it\u2019s amazing that humans could have invented chess in the first place (and all the other aspects of modern civilization from science to 747s!) let alone get as brilliant at it as someone like Magnus. He may not be strictly optimal (after all he has finite memory and limited time to make a decision) but it\u2019s incredible what he and we can do with our brains given they were evolved for hunter gathering.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fresh debate over the future of artificial intelligence (AI) broke out recently among some of the world\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":470568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[691,213721,738,213722,158762,102098,17884,158,67,132,68,127578],"class_list":{"0":"post-470567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-leaders","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-chess-and-ai","12":"tag-demis-hassabis","13":"tag-google-deepmind","14":"tag-meta-ai","15":"tag-technology","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-yann-lecun"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115779754740961466","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}