I think a lot of the animosity that Gary Markus drew was less that some of his points were wrong, and more that he didn’t seem to have a full grasp of the field before criticizing it. Here’s an r/machinelearning thread on one of his papers. Granted, r/ML is not necessarily representative of the AI community, especially now, but you see some people agreeing with some of his points, and others claiming that he’s not up to date with current ML research. I would recommend people take a look at the thread, to judge for themselves.
I’m also not inclined to take any twitter drama as strong evidence of the attitudes of the general ML community, mainly because twitter seems to strongly encourage/amplify the sort of argumentative shit-flinging pointed out in the post.
I think a lot of the animosity that Gary Markus drew was less that some of his points were wrong, and more that he didn’t seem to have a full grasp of the field before criticizing it. Here’s an r/machinelearning thread on one of his papers. Granted, r/ML is not necessarily representative of the AI community, especially now, but you see some people agreeing with some of his points, and others claiming that he’s not up to date with current ML research. I would recommend people take a look at the thread, to judge for themselves.
I’m also not inclined to take any twitter drama as strong evidence of the attitudes of the general ML community, mainly because twitter seems to strongly encourage/amplify the sort of argumentative shit-flinging pointed out in the post.