Yann LeCun · India · Meta · ChatGPT · BBC Technology
AI is 'not smart' so what's next in artificial intelligence?
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"We don't have robots that are nearly as good at understanding the physical world as a rat," says Yann LeCun, one of the leading figures in the world of artificial intelligence.
Key facts
- Meanwhile, AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li founded World Labs, external in San Francisco in 2023 to develop a new AI model
- While World Models have conceptually been around for decades, one inspiration for this work was an influential paper published in 2018 by David Ha and Jurgen Schmidhuber, external
- He worked at Facebook-owner, Meta, for a decade, where he was chief AI scientist, but left in 2025 and founded Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs (AMI Labs)
- If you asked anyone in 2017 or 2018, how long it would be until you can have a ChatGPT sort of thing, they would go: 'Decades, decades of work
Summary
He worked at Facebook-owner, Meta, for a decade, where he was chief AI scientist, but left in 2025 and founded Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs (AMI Labs). His goal is to move AI beyond current systems like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. "They're not a path towards human level or human-like intelligence, or even animal-like intelligence, because they cannot deal with real world data, they are not built for that," he tells me on the sidelines of VivaTech, France's leading technology conference. So, Paris-based AMI Labs is busy developing a new type of artificial intelligence not based on the tech behind ChatGPT and its rivals.