Yann LeCun is challenging the idea that OpenAI maintains an unmatched research environment, noting that any such culture loses its broader value when results stay hidden from the wider scientific world rather than entering public circulation.
@SebastienBubeck What's the point of an "unparalleled research culture" behind an event horizon ?
Very much looking forward to work with Noam! I have said many times that the research culture in OAI is unparalleled in my opinion, and I can't wait to see what someone like Noam will do in such an environment.
LeCun frames the issue as an event horizon: strong internal work that never surfaces cannot be verified, extended, or critiqued by outsiders, leaving its claimed superiority untestable.
Bubeck replied by suggesting LeCun visit to experience the environment firsthand, implying the culture's strengths would be evident on site even if details remain internal for now.
Many users attacked Yann LeCun as trolling and dismissive toward OpenAI's research culture with mocking insults, while some wished he would appreciate its value and enjoyed his witty tone.
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@SebastienBubeck (not mentioning, there are no parallel anything inside a black hole)
@ylecun I really wish you could see it Yann, I think you would seriously love it
@SebastienBubeck What's the point of an "unparalleled research culture" behind an event horizon ?
@ylecun @SebastienBubeck Isn’t that only one case for the final outcome of Ai?
*if* they’re successful and the new Ai species doesn’t view the existence of another Ai or humanity as zero sum
Then isn’t there theoretically room for more than one Ai?
@ylecun @SebastienBubeck Why is bro tweaking - Yann Le Can't
@ylecun @SebastienBubeck Maybe it could look like nuclear testing while presenting it as fireworks
@ylecun @SebastienBubeck who ever let facts and logic get in the way?
@ylecun @SebastienBubeck 🤔
@ylecun @SebastienBubeck Next time he will used claude to review his tweets
@ylecun @SebastienBubeck You got good at trolling and shitposting, Mr LeCun. I bet you are enjoying the Zucc demise (not the employees one tho).
@ylecun @SebastienBubeck Yann, please, take you pill.
@ylecun @SebastienBubeck What’s the direction of the null vector?
@SebastienBubeck @ylecun I feel like a research culture people cannot see is typically a research culture he wouldn't like lol
@ylecun @SebastienBubeck If you believe their engineering culture is best, I have an Einstein-Rosen bridge to sell you.
@ylecun @SebastienBubeck side topic havent been following JEPA stuff for a while; any intersting papers i can read this morning?
@ylecun @SebastienBubeck LoL I've really enjoyed the unchained version of Yann. The wit reminds of the episode in Young Sheldon the first "Flame war" or something like that in season 3.
@ylecun @SebastienBubeck What is the black hole here?
@nickmhc @ylecun @SebastienBubeck What makes you think every AI in the world knows each other?
@ylecun @SebastienBubeck Could also be the exact opposite
@ylecun @SebastienBubeck Inside blackhole everything is singular