LeCun was bemused by it all. As he told the audience at NYU, he agreed that deep learning alone could not achieve true intelligence,16 and he had never said it would. He agreed that AI would require innate machinery. After all, a neural network was innate machinery. Something had to do the learning. He was measured and even polite during the debate. But his tone changed online. When Marcus published his first paper questioning the future of deep learning, LeCun responded with a tweet: “The number of valuable recommendations ever made by Gary Marcus is exactly zero.”
