person
Kyunghyun Cho
NYU professor; Genentech; encoder-decoder pioneer
NYU professor and Genentech principal investigator; co-author of the original encoder-decoder paper that underpins modern sequence models. Vocal critic of overhyped AGI claims and capability narratives.
current Professor of Computer Science and Data Science, NYU; Senior Director, Frontier Research, Genentech
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AI skepticendorses
AGI risk narratives overstated; real harms are mundane and currentArgues current LLMs are useful tools but not paths to AGI; criticizes the framing that scale alone produces general intelligence and the secrecy practices of frontier labs.
I'm tired of the hype. We don't have AGI. We have very useful pattern matchers, and the social effect of pretending otherwise is corrosive.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.