Gary Marcus

Rank 14 of 47

Score 83

@SulkaMike @ylecun no he didn’t invent backprop in CNN’s, as far as I know (per @SchmidhuberAI_ Zhang did in 1998.

in fact, he did not invent anything on the list.

11/16/2025, 6:47:41 PM

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Mike Sulka

@SulkaMike

39d

@GaryMarcus @ylecun Back prop in cnn is a more concise answer

Gary Marcus

@GaryMarcus

39d

Quick, which of these five ideas was originally due to @YLeCun?

The idea of convolutional neural networks
The idea that LLMs would not lead to AGI.
The idea that pure scaling would not get us to AGI?
The idea that commonsense and physical reasoning were crucial to AGI?
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