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Human-level intelligence will never be achieved solely by training systems on text.
- Expert
- Yann LeCun
- Prediction date
- Apr 2, 2025
- Deadline
- Dec 31, 2035
- Category
- AI & Technology
- Explicit confidence
- Not stated
Original statement
“That clearly tells you we're never going to get to human-level intelligence by just training on text. It's never going to happen.”
Normalized claim
Human-level intelligence will never be achieved solely by training systems on text.
A falsifiable interpretation, separate from the exact source text.
Resolution criteria
Absence of any system reaching broadly accepted human-level intelligence using only text-based training data, confirmed by independent evaluations through 2035.
Market context
No high-confidence matching market is linked. Loose thematic matches are not shown.
Resolution
This prediction remains open.
Audit trailView full history
- Source recorded2025-04-02 00:00 UTC
- Prediction verified and frozen2026-09-12 23:07 UTC