Chomsky and the origins of AI research
Language Log 2026-01-08
Summary:
Melissa Heikkilä, "LeCun: 'Intelligence really is about learning'", Financial Times 1/2/2026: (The AI pioneer on stepping down from Meta, the limits of large language models — and the launch of his new start-up) LeCun’s lightbulb moment came as a student at the École Supérieure d’Ingénieurs en Électrotechnique et Électronique in Paris in the 1980s, when […]