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For anyone that doesn't know Yann LeCun, he's the head of AI over at Facebook, but surprisingly he's positively and consistently straightforward concerning the

by lowglow 10y ago

For anyone that doesn't know Yann LeCun, he's the head of AI over at Facebook, but surprisingly he's positively and consistently straightforward concerning the current hype driving AI and its technologies. He deserves respect because of this alone.

hyperopia 10y ago
Your Asteria AI project looks pretty sweet.
- lowglow 10y ago
  Thanks, are you working in AI? You should join our gitter channel.
hackinthebochs 10y ago
Not to mention the father of CNNs.
- escap 10y ago
  it's a bit more complicated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolutional_neural_network#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolutional_neural_network#H... https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-convolution-neural-networks https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-convolution-neural-networ...
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  - jamesblonde 10y ago
    Who are you? Joergen Schmidthueber?
mac01021 10y ago
"Straightforward" meaning what? Just bluntly dismissive of undue hype? What statements has he made to this effect?
- lowglow 10y ago
  Pretty much this in general. Check out any of his social profiles as he's pretty outspoken about his thoughts and opinions.