AI ‘godfather’ predicts another revolution in the tech in next five years Meta’s Yann LeCun says current systems too limited to create domestic robots and fully automated cars.
The other winners of the 2025 QEPrize are: Fei-Fei Li, the Chinese-American computer scientist who created ImageNet, a crucial dataset for training AIs to recognise objects; Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, the lead maker of chips used in operating and training AI systems; and Bill Dally, the chief scientist at Nvidia.
However, LeCun’s fellow QEPrize winner and AI “godfather”, Yoshua Bengio, warned more progress was needed on the technology’s safety and called on next week’s global AI summit in Paris to grasp the issue.
Yann LeCun, the chief AI scientist at Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, said new breakthroughs are needed in order for the systems to understand and interact with the physical world.
“There are still a lot of scientific and technological challenges ahead, and it’s very likely that there’s going to be yet another AI revolution over the next three to five years because of the limitation of current systems,” he said.
