LLMs are dumb. Superintelligence won’t arrive by scaling them up

LLMs are dumb. Superintelligence won’t arrive by scaling them up

21 February 2026

| Synapse

Yann LeCun is an “AI godfather”. Winner of the Turing Award, the Nobel of computer science.  Skeptic in chief who doesn’t believe LLMs will get us to actual intelligence. And a contrarian who is focused on the next AI revolution instead of the present race to scale.

Watch him in conversation with Shoma Chaudhury, Founder of Lucid Lines & Founder-Director, SYNAPSE, as he unpacks the hype around LLMs, why there is disagreement on how to get to superintelligence, whether AI is dangerous, why he left Meta – and his solution to making machines smarter than humans.