The comparison arose after LeCun publicly backed Project Tapestry, an AI Alliance effort to let multiple nations and institutions jointly train frontier open models while each keeps control of its own data and compute.
Yann reminds me of Bobby Fischer - Luminary in his field - *extremely* arrogant - has beliefs that most of the field considers cooky - actually not autistic and sometimes surprisingly good at community organizing
@HarryStebbings The answer is Project Tapestry https://thealliance.ai/projects/tapestry
Phase 0 work centers on cultural alignment tests, open-sourced training code, and a metadata catalog of possible data sources, with the first base model not expected before the end of 2026.
As Chief Science Advisor he frames Tapestry as a sovereignty-preserving alternative to closed frontier labs, drawing in partners such as India's BharatGen while the project remains in its pre-training phase.
Positive users defend Yann LeCun's accomplishments like inventing MNIST and his productive intelligence against the Bobby Fischer comparison for arrogance, while negative users mock him with insults claiming Fischer was far smarter.
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@teortaxesTex i would argue #3 and #4 did not apply to Fischer
Yann reminds me of Bobby Fischer - Luminary in his field - *extremely* arrogant - has beliefs that most of the field considers cooky - actually not autistic and sometimes surprisingly good at community organizing
@teortaxesTex He's down 50 IQ points from Fischer
@teortaxesTex it's part of his charm
@TomLoweCinema Everyone is Fischer is a test of the hypothesis that there can be too much
@teortaxesTex What are his cooky beliefs?
@max_paperclips @teortaxesTex Bobby Fisher was crazy smart compared to Le Cunn. Wtf is this bullshit?
@Charlie40074981 @teortaxesTex Idk Bobby Fischer never invented MNIST
@max_paperclips @teortaxesTex Most ideas in AI were/are recycled from past ideas in the 60s-80s that people didn’t have the compute to try out. Le Cunn is like the ultimate academic (smart, not too smart, plays the game, always in the right place).
Bobby Fischer was a straight up genius.
@TomLoweCinema @teortaxesTex And yet astronomically more accomplished.
@teortaxesTex But what's your read on the project?
Yann reminds me of Bobby Fischer - Luminary in his field - *extremely* arrogant - has beliefs that most of the field considers cooky - actually not autistic and sometimes surprisingly good at community organizing
@TomLoweCinema @teortaxesTex and still used the remaining ones more productively
@max_paperclips @teortaxesTex He was leagues ahead in chess for decades even against the best of the USSR and even well past his prime.
He knew at least 4 languages well. English, Spanish, German and Russian.
Blamed the 🧃 for quite a few things despite being of that heritage.
@teortaxesTex Not for winning chess. 😉
@teortaxesTex Nah, Bobby Fischer was way way smarter than Le Cunn.
Most of Le Cunns problems are because he’s not as smart as he thinks he is.
Most of Bobby Fischer’s problems were because he was just too smart for anyone else.
@OmeadMoses @teortaxesTex Antisemite who believed all Jews should be killed, while having two Jewish parents
@TomLoweCinema @teortaxesTex Uhhhh how many basketball championships has Professor Yann LeStupid won?
@LinusMixson @teortaxesTex How many Chess championships does Profressor LeCooked have?
@Charlie40074981 @teortaxesTex I don't know anything about him, except being a chess guy