{"id":1030890,"date":"2026-08-24T11:18:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T05:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030890"},"modified":"2026-08-24T11:18:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T05:48:17","slug":"godfather-of-ai-yann-lecun-wants-ai-models-to-upgrade-from-writing-his-essays-to-solving-this-big-bedroom-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/24\/godfather-of-ai-yann-lecun-wants-ai-models-to-upgrade-from-writing-his-essays-to-solving-this-big-bedroom-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Godfather of AI Yann Lecun wants AI models to upgrade from writing his essays to solving this &#8216;big bedroom problem&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta&#8217;s former Chief AI scientist who is also popularly regarded as the Godfather of AI, Yann Lecun, wants AI models to do lots more. In a post on X, formerly Twitter Lecun said that he wants LLMs (Large Language Models) to do a lot more including physical work. He made the comment while replying to Paul Graham. &#8220;Someone asked what I&#8217;d do if I were 17. I&#8217;d learn how to build LLMs from scratch, and then train ones as powerful as I could with whatever hardware I could get access to,&#8221; wrote Graham in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p>To this Lecun replied, &#8220;I would try to figure out why LLMs can write my essays but not clean my bedroom. Then I would study topics in college and grad school that could help solve that problem. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta&#8217;s former Chief AI scientist who is also popularly regarded as the Godfather of AI, Yann Lecun, wants AI models to do lots more. In a post on X, formerly Twitter Lecun said that he wants LLMs (Large Language Models) to do a lot more including physical work. He made the comment while replying to Paul Graham. &#8220;Someone asked what I&#8217;d do if I were 17. I&#8217;d learn how to build LLMs from scratch, and then train ones as powerful as I could with whatever hardware I could get access to,&#8221; wrote Graham in a post on X. To this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030891,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030890\/revisions\/1030891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}