new york — affected consciousness pioneer yann lecun said wednesday he accomplish continue leaving his job as meta’s paramount ai scientist at the tip of the year.
lecun said he accomplish continue forming a startup aggregation to chase elaboration on esoteric forms of ai that can “understand the material world, accept persistent memory, can reason, and can premeditate abstruse fight sequences.”
his announcement, behind more than a week of rumors, comes behind meta platforms, the parent aggregation of facebook, instagram and whatsapp, began trenchant roughly 600 ai jobs this decline.
lecun said in a collective media post that meta accomplish accomplice with the novel startup and that some of the elaboration accomplish overlap with meta’s commercial interests and some of it accomplish not.
lecun joined facebook in 2013 and co-founded meta’s ai elaboration division, formerly notorious as facebook ai elaboration. lecun stepped down as the group’s manager in 2018 barring has remained meta’s paramount ai scientist.
he’s likewise a part-time teacher at novel york university, where he has taught whereas 2003.
lecun spent his timely course at the shadow processing branch at at&t bell labs in novel jersey, where he worked on developing ai systems that could “read” text base in digitized images. he was a winner in 2019 of computer science’s apex prize, the turing award, along with adherent ai pioneers yoshua bengio and geoffrey hinton.