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

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<p>Yann LeCun is the Chief AI Scientist at Meta, professor at NYU, Turing Award winner, and one of the seminal researchers in the history of machine learning. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:<br /> &#8211; <b>Public Goods</b>: <a href="https://publicgoods.com/lex">https://publicgoods.com/lex</a> and use code LEX to get $15 off<br /> &#8211; <b>Indeed</b>: <a href="https://indeed.com/lex">https://indeed.com/lex</a> to get $75 credit<br /> &#8211; <b>ROKA</b>: <a href="https://roka.com/">https://roka.com/</a> and use code LEX to get 20% off your first order<br /> &#8211; <b>NetSuite</b>: <a href="http://netsuite.com/lex">http://netsuite.com/lex</a> to get free product tour<br /> &#8211; <b>Magic Spoon</b>: <a href="https://magicspoon.com/lex">https://magicspoon.com/lex</a> and use code LEX to get $5 off</p> <p><b>EPISODE LINKS:</b><br /> Yann&#8217;s Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/ylecun">https://twitter.com/ylecun</a><br /> Yann&#8217;s Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/yann.lecun">https://www.facebook.com/yann.lecun</a><br /> Yann&#8217;s Website: <a href="http://yann.lecun.com/">http://yann.lecun.com/</a><br /> Books and resources mentioned:<br /> Self-supervised learning (article): <a href="https://bit.ly/3Aau1DQ">https://bit.ly/3Aau1DQ</a></p> <p><b>PODCAST INFO:</b><br /> Podcast website: <a href="https://lexfridman.com/podcast">https://lexfridman.com/podcast</a><br /> Apple Podcasts: <a href="https://apple.co/2lwqZIr">https://apple.co/2lwqZIr</a><br /> Spotify: <a href="https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8">https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8</a><br /> RSS: <a href="https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/">https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/</a><br /> YouTube Full Episodes: <a href="https://youtube.com/lexfridman">https://youtube.com/lexfridman</a><br /> YouTube Clips: <a href="https://youtube.com/lexclips">https://youtube.com/lexclips</a></p> <p><b>SUPPORT &#38; CONNECT:</b><br /> &#8211; Check out the sponsors above, it&#8217;s the best way to support this podcast<br /> &#8211; Support on Patreon: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman">https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman</a><br /> &#8211; Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/lexfridman">https://twitter.com/lexfridman</a><br /> &#8211; Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman">https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman</a><br /> &#8211; LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman">https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman</a><br /> &#8211; Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman">https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman</a><br /> &#8211; Medium: <a href="https://medium.com/@lexfridman">https://medium.com/@lexfridman</a></p> <p><b>OUTLINE:</b><br /> Here&#8217;s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.<br /> (00:00) &#8211; Introduction<br /> (06:58) &#8211; Self-supervised learning<br /> (17:17) &#8211; Vision vs language<br /> (23:08) &#8211; Statistics<br /> (28:55) &#8211; Three challenges of machine learning<br /> (34:45) &#8211; Chess<br /> (42:47) &#8211; Animals and intelligence<br /> (52:31) &#8211; Data augmentation<br /> (1:13:51) &#8211; Multimodal learning<br /> (1:25:40) &#8211; Consciousness<br /> (1:30:25) &#8211; Intrinsic vs learned ideas<br /> (1:34:37) &#8211; Fear of death<br /> (1:42:29) &#8211; Artificial Intelligence<br /> (1:56:18) &#8211; Facebook AI Research<br /> (2:12:56) &#8211; NeurIPS<br /> (2:29:08) &#8211; Complexity<br /> (2:37:33) &#8211; Music<br /> (2:42:28) &#8211; Advice for young people</p>