Yann Le Cun is the Chief Scientist of AI at Meta, and a researcher in artificial intelligence and computer vision (robotics). He is considered one of the inventors of deep learning.
He received the 2018 Turing Award, shared with Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton. He then gave the following advice: “Study physics, math, statistics, more than technologies with a short lifespan that will disappear within a few years. If you want to get into this field, learn the underlying methods, because the science behind it will evolve, but the basic math and physics (very useful), or signal processing, filter theory, are the real foundations of AI, machine learning and deep learning.
Yann Le Cun first worked on machine learning and deep learning, then he joined the University of Toronto and AT&T laboratories, for which he developed supervised learning methods. He then became interested in the design of compression algorithms for the DjVu archive format and then in the automatic recognition of bank checks. He taught at New York University where he developed self-driving car models. In 2016, he held the chair “Computer Science and Digital Sciences” at the Collège de France.
At Facebook and then Meta, Yann Le Cun worked in particular on the development of an intelligent personal assistant capable of reading, translating, making reservations… autonomously. He advocates for an open AI infrastructure and is opposed to any regulation that he describes as “anachronistic”.
He has published numerous articles and a reference book on deep learning, which was reviewed by the Turgot Club.
