# Yann LeCun explains why Facebook would crumble without AI

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Podcast: [The Robot Brains Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/robot-brains-podcast)
Published: 2021-04-07T15:00:28+00:00
Episode link: https://www.therobotbrains.ai
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On episode three of The Robot Brains Podcast we have deep learning pioneer: Yann LeCun. Yann is a winner of the Turing Award (often called the Nobel Prize of Computer Science) who in 2013 was handpicked by Mark Zuckerberg to bring AI to Facebook. Yann also offers his predictions for the future of artificial general intelligence, talks about his life straddling the worlds of academia and business and explains why he likes to picture AI as a chocolate layer cake with a cherry on top. Host: Pieter Abbeel Executive Producers: Ricardo Reyes & Henry Tobias Jones Audio Production: Kieron Matthew Banerj Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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