Meta’s Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun at IIT-Delhi; calls for new model architectures

While welcoming Dr Yann, IIT Delhi Director Prof Rangan Banerjee spoke about the Institute’s initiatives in human-AI interface research and the Centre for Healthcare—a collaboration between the Government of India, AIIMS, and IIT Delhi aimed at advancing healthcare through Artificial Intelligence. Challenging the current approaches to AI development, Dr. Yann urged for innovative architectures beyond large language models (LLMs). He argued that current AI paradigms are insufficient to achieve true human-like intelligence.

“We are not going to reach that stage by using the current paradigm and just making it bigger; we need essentially new architectures like objective-driven architecture,” he said.

Addressing concerns about AI safety, he dismissed fears of intelligent systems dominating humans. He stated that AI’s purpose is to empower. “The future of AI in my opinion is a future in which everyone will be walking around with an assistant digitally like smart glasses.” he said, humorously adding, “It’ll be like walking around with three smart people working for you.”

Talking about India’s role in development of AI, he said: “The training of the big models is to be distributed. India has an important part to play in this because of the size of the population, the diversity of cultures, and value systems.”

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