[sdenton4]

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.

[mrtranscendence]

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.

[sdenton4]

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