I sure do remember. I made fun of them.
I was right.
@ylecun
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Famous Researchers Versus Majority Scientific Consensus
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"two famous researchers" != "the majority of researchers"
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Scientists Hijacked Nvidia CUDA for Deep Learning Research
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Nvidia did not "sell its gaming architecture to a handful of scientists" A handful of scientists such as Patrice Simard et MSR, Andrew Ng, and later Geoff Hinton, hijacked CUDA and implemented convnets and backprop on them. It took several years for Nvidia to realize there was
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Llama-2 Catalyzed Thousands of AI Startups Globally
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Llama-2 single-handedly jump-started the open weight AI industry. Literally thousands of AI startups would not have existed without it.
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Linux laptop user shares longtime experience
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Bonne idée ! Mon laptop principal est sous Linux depuis toujours.
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Hidden Research Foundations Enable Future Technology Innovation
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The technology that enabled all the things you ever produced had its origin in a "useless paper" 5, 10, or 20 years prior that you don't even realize exists.
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AI Capabilities Don’t Equal Intelligence Over Humans
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The fact that an AI system is better than you at some tasks, can retrieve more declarative knowledge than you, and can write better prose than you does not make it more intelligent than you, or even than your cat.
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Leadership Support Amid Strategic Direction Divergence
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The company leadership was quite supportive, actually.
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Career transition from FAIR director to independent research contributor
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I was director of FAIR from 2013 to 2018.
From 2018 to 2025 I was an Individual Contributor, with nobody reporting to me. This allowed me to refocus on research.
I had no direct control over resources.
I had influence on research directions, but only with people willing to listen