Machine Learning: How Did We Get Here?
A University and Corporate Perspective with Yann LeCun
02 March 2026 1:20:41 Tom Mitchell | Stanford Digital Economy Lab
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Tom sits down with Yann LeCun, the Jacob T. Schwartz Professor of Computer Science at NYU, and Executive Chairman of Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs.
Yann is co-winner of the 2018 ACM Turing Award for his research in neural network learning. Yann takes us from his days as a postdoc working with Geoff Hinton, through his days as Chief AI Scientist at Facebook/Meta. His simultaneous roles as a Professor at NYU and Chief AI Scientist at a large AI provider gives Yann a unique perspective on how technological advances and commercial forces combined to get us to today's state of the art.
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