War of words on the internet is one of billionaire Elon Musk’s favorite activities, but rarely has he been “throated” as harshly as this time, when he poked fun at one of the platform builders. for current AI technology: Dr. Yann LeCun.
The beginning of the story came from Mr. Musk’s post on platform praising the “supreme pursuit of truth, regardless of popularity or politics.”
Immediately after that, Mr. Yann LeCun sarcastically criticized Mr. Musk’s post: ” Just join xAI, if you can stand a boss:
– The person said that what you are researching will be solved next year (no pressure at all).
– The person who said that what you are researching will destroy everyone and must be stopped (great, 6 months leave).
– The person who claims to want to “pursue the ultimate truth” but spreads crazy conspiracy theories on his own social media platform .
If someone challenges you, Mr. Musk will certainly never retreat and start waiting for an opportunity to respond. When Mr. LeCun said that he was just a scientist, not a businessman or product designer, Mr. Musk slandered that Mr. LeCun was just someone who ” followed orders .”
When Mr. LeCun criticized that Mr. Musk “seems to have no understanding of how research projects work”, the world’s top billionaire got angry: ” So you did “science” what in the past 5 years ?
Just waiting for that, Mr. LeCun had the opportunity to “display” his extensive achievements list, which is listed on the Google Scholar page: including “more than 80 technical documents published since January 2022”.
Not giving up, Mr. Musk continued even though he began to lose his reason: ” All those things are nothing, you are too weak. Try harder .”
Knowing that Mr. Musk despised his research, Mr. LeCun said: ” For those who say that these documents are just “a few pieces of paper”: One of them talks about convolutional neural networks (Convolutional neural networks). – or CNNs or ConvNets) in 1989. “
He also did not forget to “gently remind” that Tesla himself is also using his research results: ” ConvNets have been used in every real-time vision system today. For driver assistance systems , they were used by MobileEye since 2014, by Tesla since 2016 (when MobileEye stopped selling its vision system to them), by NVIDIA around the same time, and everyone else was using .”
As soon as he mentioned Tesla, Mr. Musk immediately denied: ” Actually, we don’t use CNNs anymore .”
It turned out that Mr. Musk fell into the trap that had just been set when Mr. LeCun retorted: ” A bit curious, if not using ConvNets, what does your FSD driver assistance system use to understand the image?” camera in real time “.
This closing sentence from Mr. LeCun seemed to have made Mr. Musk speechless and unable to respond when he did not see the Tesla CEO defend himself again.
It should be added that: CNNs are machine learning algorithms introduced by Mr. Yann LeCun and many other researchers in 1989, a method of creating artificial neural networks capable of extracting information and learning effectively. .
Until now, this algorithm is still used in Machine Learning technology to recognize images in real time. Tesla’s driving assistance system uses cameras to identify objects through camera images and support self-driving, so it must definitely use Machine Learning algorithms related to CNNs.
Interestingly, Mr. Yann LeCun is currently the chief AI scientist of Meta, the company that owns the largest social networking platforms in the world today, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and recently Threads. Last year, Mr. Musk himself planned to compete in a martial arts competition with Meta’s boss, Mark Zuckerberg.
