Boz to the Future Episode 11: The Future of AI with Guest Yann LeCun

In addition to his role at Meta, LeCun is Silver Professor at New York University (NYU) affiliated with the Courant Institute and the Center for Data Science, where he's a founding director. Considered one of the godfathers of deep learning, LeCun has worked since the mid-1980s to advance deep learning methods, particularly the convolutional neural network model, which is the basis of many products and services deployed by numerous companies including Meta, Google, Microsoft, and many others for image and video understanding and speech recognition. The character recognition technology he developed at Bell Labs is used by several banks around the world to read checks while his image compression technology, called DjVu, is used by hundreds of websites and publishers and millions of people to access scanned documents online. In 2018, LeCun was awarded the ACM A.M. Turing Award along with Geffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio for "conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing." More recently, his contributions to the advancement of AI were recognized with the Princess of Asturias Award for Technical & Scientific Research (bestowed by the King of Spain).