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He's a fool who hurls criticisms, gets repeatedly disproven, and doesn't actually execute on anything. It's obvious why le cun's words carry more weight; he and his labs get shit done; he speaks from experience, not sophistry.

In other words, Gary Marcus has managed to match some linguistic sub-patterns between two articles, but has not proved he is intelligent.




He’s matched some “linguistic patterns” that seem to indicate that LeCun has adopted ideas for which people like you call Marcus a fool. I’m going to cut him some slack.


Just giving back exactly the level of consideration he gives to ML as a field... Pattern matching isn't intelligence, after all.




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