LeCun has been consistently wrong about LLMs though, claiming that they were a dead end and that they'd never be able to do spatial reasoning, which was disproved a year later with GPT-4 [1]. He is also opposed by his fellow Turing laureates Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, who both signed the CAIS statement on AI extinction risk [2].

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1d5ns1z/yann_lecun_...

[2]: safe.ai/statement-on-ai-risk