We already have tech that can see and hear what's going on around us, and with the help of AI, that stuff could get a huge boost.

The biggest problem is that this tech needs way more computing power than the AI itself.

I could be wrong, but I just don't see that tech going mainstream in our lifetime.

Good points.  Which makes sense for someone like him, he's probably more interseted in being on the forefront of a moonshot than building commercial apps on top of LLMs


Exactly. The new hype is "autonomous robot" and "AI led automation" - and in fairness those *cannot be achieved* with LLMs (we don't navigate our 3D world based on "language"). Thus....there needs to be some new tech. 

LeCun is smart, so he probably ran the numbers: (a) Stay at Meta and get forced into LLM product support, or (b) Jump into new hype and make a few hundred million and maybe works / maybe not. 

