The disrespect LeCun gets for this is mind-boggling to me. Reddit comment: "Old man yells at cloud." Like I get that we should avoid hagiography just because of past success and he could be wrong, of course, but you can't miss the irony either: deep learning was widely panned for decades while LeCun kept pushing them as the way forward. Maybe this time his doggedness will be less profitable, but I'm happy really smart people are trying different lines of attack.
The disrespect LeCun gets for this is mind-boggling to me. Reddit comment: "Old man yells at cloud." Like I get that we should avoid hagiography just because of past success and he could be wrong, of course, but you can't miss the irony either: deep learning was widely panned for decades while LeCun kept pushing them as the way forward. Maybe this time his doggedness will be less profitable, but I'm happy really smart people are trying different lines of attack.
Show don't tell.