That afternoon, the group overseeing the company’s AI research walked in alongside Mike Schroepfer, the chief technology officer, and Yann LeCun gave the presentation, detailing their work with image recognition, translation, and natural language understanding. Zuckerberg didn’t say much as he listened. Neither did Schroepfer. Then, when the presentation ended, the group walked out of the room, and Schroepfer lit into LeCun, telling him that nothing he’d said meant anything. “We just need something that shows we’re doing better than other companies,” he told LeCun. “I don’t care how you do it.
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