# Yann LeCun French-American computer scientist who developed convolutional neural networks (CNNs) at [[wiki/Bell Labs|Bell Labs]] in 1989 — the architecture that now powers image recognition, autonomous vehicles, and the visual processing layers of modern AI. LeCun later became chief AI scientist at Meta/Facebook and won the 2018 Turing Award. He represents one of the key personnel vectors through which Bell Labs' institutional methodology propagated into the modern AI ecosystem, as documented in [[articles/Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power|Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power]] and [[articles/Bauhaus Architects of AI|Bauhaus Architects of AI]]. ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > "Our intelligence is what makes us human, and AI is an extension of that quality." > **— Yann LeCun**, *2016, Meta/Facebook Engineering interview* [[reminders/Extended Mind/Our Intelligence Is What Makes Us Human and AI Is an Extension of That Quality by Yann LeCun|Our Intelligence Is What Makes Us Human and AI Is an Extension of That Quality by Yann LeCun]]