Why has generative AI ingested all the world’s knowledge but not been able to come up with scientific discoveries of its own, and has it finally started to understand the physical world? We'll discuss it with Meta Chief AI Scientist and Turing Award winner Yan LeCun. Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool-headed nuanced conversations about the tech world and beyond. I'm Alex Kantrowitz, and I am thrilled to welcome Yan LeCun, the chief AI scientist, Turing Award winner, and a man known as The Godfather of AI to Big Technology Podcast.
Yan, great to see you again. Welcome to the show.
Pleasure to be here. Let's start with a question about scientific discovery and why AI has not been able to come up with it until this point. This is coming from Dwarves Patel; he asked it a couple of months ago: "Why do you make of the fact that AIs generative AI basically have the entire corpus of human knowledge memorized, and they haven't been able to make a single new connection that has led to discovery? Where