1. I never said LLMs were not useful. They are, particularly with all the bells and whistles that are being added to them. I use them.
— Yann LeCun (@ylecun) April 24, 2026
2. A robot-rich future can't be built with AIs that don't understand the physical world and don't anticipate the consequences of their actions.…
LOL!
Of course he's right about LLMs, especially about all those bells and whistles. Those add symbolic control to the core neural net capabilities of LLMs. And of course he's right about the need to predict what's happening in the physical world. Robots need that and LLMs cannot provide it. Next-token prediction is a different beast, even if those tokens are about things happening in the physical world.