This is such a salty take by LeCun. It's an important reminder that someone can be incredibly smart and still have bad opinions. This would be like saying soft

This is such a salty take by LeCun. It's an important reminder that someone can be incredibly smart and still have bad opinions. This would be like saying software isn't novel - everything is just an extension of that first NAND/NOR gate or that it's not useful because the computer doesn't actually understand the knowledge it's storing and is therefore no better than a clay tablet.