The AI community has lived by a simple creed: bigger is better. OpenAI's groundbreaking 2020 paper, "Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models," led the charge by implying that model performance ...

Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at Meta, pushed back against "scaling laws." These laws say that the bigger AI models are, the more high-performing and smarter they will be. "It's not just about ...

Bigger is not better, according to Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist. Smarter AI requires different training methods, he ...

It is perhaps symbolic of the times we live in that in the midst of the growing criticism of economic globalisation in the developed West, and all that it has come to imply, an axe has fallen on a ...

business executives and celebrities at Davos. Starting off as a philosophy of personal freedom and economic opportunity, neoliberalism devolved steadily into the jockeying of ever larger and more ...

Professor Yann LeCun, another of the three godfathers of AI, is less worried about speedy AI development. He said in 2023 that the alleged threat to humanity is "preposterously ridiculous." ...

This year, we ventured a little further and visited Lech and St. Anton in western Austria and Klosters and Davos in eastern Switzerland. The Arlberg region of Austria is home to the country’s ...