{"id":232503,"date":"2026-03-03T22:03:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T04:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/tom-sits-down-with-yann-lecun-the-jacob-t"},"modified":"2026-03-03T22:03:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T04:03:25","slug":"tom-sits-down-with-yann-lecun-the-jacob-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/tom-sits-down-with-yann-lecun-the-jacob-t","title":{"rendered":"Tom sits down with Yann LeCun, the Jacob T"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/urHW2RwPaQQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Schwartz professor of computer science at NYU, and executive chairman of advanced machine intelligence labs.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s state of the art.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}