LeCun mocks the claim that general AI is just around the corner

Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at Meta, used a short post on X on Saturday to mock the claim, repeated for years in parts of the industry, that artificial general intelligence is just around the corner. The post was widely seen among researchers, although it appeared in a weekend in which most of his posts were about politics.

It adds no new argument. It is consistent with LeCun’s long-standing scepticism that scaling models trained purely on next-token prediction will lead to general intelligence, and it was his clearest technical remark of the weekend.