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#258 – Yann LeCun: Dark Matter of Intelligence and Self-Supervised Learning

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Is Similarity Learning the Same as Understanding Something?

I don't think we can train a machine to be intelligent purely from text. The amount of information about the world that's contained in text is tiny compared to what we need to know. And I also think that that ability to learn how the world works from a sort of high throughput channel like vision is a necessary step towards sort of real artificial intelligence. In other words, I believe in grounded intelligence.

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