You're selling yourself short. $1B for the world, $2B for the solar system, $4B for the milky way, $8B for the local group, $16B for the universe.

Not that I have any skin of the game or what you’re saying, but his entire pitch is to build something that’s not an LLM

LeCun argues that most human reasoning is grounded in the physical world, not language, and that AI world models are necessary to develop true human-level intelligence. “The idea that you’re going to extend the capabilities of LLMs [large language models] to the point that they’re going to have human-level intelligence is complete nonsense,” he said in an interview with WIRED.

I forget the technique he’s going after but it’s supposed to be different from the regular LLM.

EDIT: if I paid more attention I’d see it’s in the article. World models.

six months later Come on guys, just another billion, we're almost there I swear

I mean, if you could actually solve that problem, it would be worth a LOT more than 1 billion. I just don't remotely believe that you can solve it for 1 billion. Training costs alone would eat that and more.

Best I can do is $87!

once they figured out that we weren't willing to murder each other on their behalf, their next moves became pretty obvious