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19891980s
Organizations
AT&T Bell LabsNew York UniversityMeta AI (FAIR)
Major Achievements
- •Pioneered the application of backpropagation to convolutional neural networks (LeNet-5, 1989/1998).
- •Proved that deep feature hierarchies could be learned directly from pixels without manual feature engineering.
- •Awarded the 2018 Turing Prize alongside Hinton and Bengio.
- •Chief AI Scientist at Meta, heavily driving open-source AI models (LLaMA).
Key Papers
- Backpropagation Applied to Handwritten Zip Code Recognition
Yann LeCun et al. · Neural Computation · 1989
- Gradient-Based Learning Applied to Document Recognition
Yann LeCun et al. · Proceedings of the IEEE · 1998
- Deep Learning
Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton · Nature · 2015
Videos
Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #416
Lex Fridman
Yann LeCun: We Won't Reach AGI By Scaling Up LLMS
Alex Kantrowitz