Join us in returning to NYC on June 5th to collaborate with executive leaders in exploring comprehensive methods for auditing AI models regarding bias, performance, and ethical compliance across diverse organizations. Find out how you can attend here . Over the Memorial Day weekend, while most Americans were firing up their grills and enjoying a cold one, Yann LeCun , Meta’s chief AI scientist, and Elon Musk , the enigmatic CEO of Tesla and xAI , were engaged in a no-holds-barred digital dustup on X.
com (formerly Twitter). This clash of the AI titans exposed some of the key fault lines in the fast-moving, hype-fueled field of artificial intelligence. The online feud ignited on Sunday, May 26th when LeCun threw shade at Musk, who was promoting job openings at his new AI startup xAI.
LeCun’s tweet was a masterclass in snark: “Join xAI if you can stand a boss who: claims that what you are working on will be solved next year (no pressure), claims that what you are working on will kill everyone and must be stopped or paused (yay, vacation for 6 months!), claims to want a ‘maximally rigorous pursuit of the truth’ but spews crazy-ass conspiracy theories on his own social platform.” Join xAI if you can stand a boss who: – claims that what you are working on will be solved next year (no pressure). – claims that what you are working on will kill everyone and must be stopped or paused (yay, vacation for 6 months!).
– claims to want a "maximally rigorous pursuit...
Musk.
