In the classic movie “Bridge on the River Kwai”, a new senior Allied officer (Colonel Nicholson) arrives in a Japanese POW camp and tries to restore morale among his dispirited men. This includes ordering them to stop malingering/sabotage and to build a proper bridge for the Japanese, one that will stand as a tribute to the British Army’s capabilities for centuries—despite the fact that this bridge will harm the British Army and their allies.
While I always saw the benefit to prisoner morale in working toward a clear goal, I took a long time to see the Colonel Nicholson character as realistic. Yann LeCunn reads like a man who would immediately identify with Nicholson and view the colonel as a role model. LeCunn has chosen to build a proper bridge to the AI future.
In the classic movie “Bridge on the River Kwai”, a new senior Allied officer (Colonel Nicholson) arrives in a Japanese POW camp and tries to restore morale among his dispirited men. This includes ordering them to stop malingering/sabotage and to build a proper bridge for the Japanese, one that will stand as a tribute to the British Army’s capabilities for centuries—despite the fact that this bridge will harm the British Army and their allies.
While I always saw the benefit to prisoner morale in working toward a clear goal, I took a long time to see the Colonel Nicholson character as realistic. Yann LeCunn reads like a man who would immediately identify with Nicholson and view the colonel as a role model. LeCunn has chosen to build a proper bridge to the AI future.
And now I have that theme song stuck in my head.