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Re:The End of AI Frontiers by ViktorRay on Saturday November 07, 2026 @10:47PM (#50410251)
Almost all statements Yann LeCun made back then (LLMs won't be able to do this or that) turned out to be wrong. They were right to fire him.

The idea that someone should be fired just because they were wrong seems to be something that would cause issues if one wanted to think long term.

This approach will make people afraid of being wrong. It will lead them to avoid challenging dogmatic assumptions in large organizations and inevitably lead to group think.

People really shouldn’t be punished for saying wrong things. Long term it’s better for a company if they aren’t punished for that. Helps to let people freely criticize dogmas or propose new ones.

Re:The End of AI Frontiers by jack_pp on Saturday November 07, 2026 @11:42PM (#50410469)
If what you say is true then they would have abandoned LLMs. You're saying that it would have benefited them?
Re:The End of AI Frontiers by HDThoreaun on Sunday November 08, 2026 @01:19AM (#50410883)
Depends on your role. If youre in charge of research in a hundred billion dollar org you should absolutely be fired if you devote your org to pie in the sky research instead of creating tangible value. If your job is just doing the research obviously you shouldnt be punished if your experiments dont work. Yann was fired because his main job was balancing product development with research and he didnt do that.
Re:The End of AI Frontiers by incrudible on Sunday November 08, 2026 @04:40AM (#50411745)
None of these second-rate LLMs are creating tangible value. Nobody has made any money developing LLMs yet, and when the capex runway ends, the second-rate models won't see much (if any) use at all, compute is too precious for that.