{"id":988737,"date":"2026-01-30T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988737"},"modified":"2026-01-30T10:24:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:54:48","slug":"an-ai-pioneer-warns-the-tech-herd-is-marching-into-a-dead-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/30\/an-ai-pioneer-warns-the-tech-herd-is-marching-into-a-dead-end\/","title":{"rendered":"An AI pioneer warns the tech &#8216;herd&#8217; is marching into a dead end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout his 40-year career as a computer scientist, Yann LeCun has earned a reputation as one of the world&#8217;s leading experts on artificial intelligence and a man with a penchant for throwing verbal grenades. <\/p>\n<p>He was one of three pioneering researchers who received the Turing Award, often called &#8220;the Nobel Prize of computing,&#8221; for their work on the technology that is now the foundation for modern AI. For more than a decade, he also served as chief AI scientist at Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout his 40-year career as a computer scientist, Yann LeCun has earned a reputation as one of the world&#8217;s leading experts on artificial intelligence and a man with a penchant for throwing verbal grenades. He was one of three pioneering researchers who received the Turing Award, often called &#8220;the Nobel Prize of computing,&#8221; for their work on the technology that is now the foundation for modern AI. For more than a decade, he also served as chief AI scientist at Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988737","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}