🔔 Update to LeCuns departure from Meta

• Yann LeCun is reportedly leaving Meta Platforms because he’s lost confidence in large language models as the path to human-level AI - he calls them a “dead end”.

• He argues instead for so-called world models: systems that build an internal, causal understanding of the physical and action-based world (not just text) and can predict the results of actions.

• His vision: machines that plan, reason, and act in hierarchies with measurable “energy functions” (i.e., cost/compatibility functions) rather than just generating next tokens - though it’s still v