Facebook's head of AI wants us to stop using the Terminator to talk about AI

Yann LeCun is one of AI's most accomplished minds, so when he says that even recent advances in the field aren't taking us closer to super-intelligent machines, you need to pay attention. LeCun has been working in AI for decades, and is one of the co-creators of convolutional neural networks -- a type of program that's proved particularly adept at analyzing visual data, and powers everything from self-driving cars to facial recognition. Now, as head of Facebook's AI research facility FAIR, he helps AI make the journey from the lab to the real world. His team's software automatically captions photos for blind users and performs 4.5 billion AI-powered translations a day. "We had a bigger impact on products than Mark Zuckerberg expected," LeCun told The Verge over Skype recently.