Yann LeCun doubles down: LLMs are fooling us the same way AI always has

The Meta chief scientist's latest remarks on LLM intelligence circulated widely, reiterating his long-held position that language models mimic understanding without possessing it.

Yann LeCun's skepticism about large language models isn't new, but his latest remarks — surfaced Sunday by @realBigBrainAI — frame the argument in historical terms that cut deeper than the usual "stochastic parrots" critique. LeCun, who leads Meta's AI research as chief scientist and co-directs the AMI Labs initiative, argued that LLMs are "fooling us the same way AI has for decades" — a reference to the recurring pattern where systems that perform narrow tasks impressively get mistakenly credited with general intelligence.

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