He also 'did not like' Support Vector Machines, back when they were the best method for image recognition. His reason was that SVMs were a 'dead end' - they we

He also 'did not like' Support Vector Machines, back when they were the best method for image recognition. His reason was that SVMs were a 'dead end' - they were not a step on the path to human-level image recognition. His argument now seems pretty valid. I think he is saying the same thing about Max Pooling. Just my guess.