I think it’s time to consider that maybe being a venerable graybeard of AI just means you happened to be early to the party. Most of the “breathtaking” innovations of the early pioneers of the field are obvious solutions that anyone would have thought of when faced with the problems they encountered. LeCun’s primary contribution was Convnets, which is almost literally just “what if we organized ANNs in a way similar to how animal visual neurons are organized?”
In other words, I’m kind of tired of having to hear the opinions of dudes whose claim to fame was being at the right place at the right time. I’d rather hear from people who correctly predicted 10 years ago that AGI would arrive by 2027 (of which there are many) than people who continue to insist that it somehow won’t.
In other words, I’m kind of tired of having to hear the opinions of dudes whose claim to fame was being at the right place at the right time. I’d rather hear from people who correctly predicted 10 years ago that AGI would arrive by 2027 (of which there are many) than people who continue to insist that it somehow won’t.