Yes thats all fine and good, but there is a difference between posting an informal message reminding people of all of that.....and obsessively posting many times about it over the course of a day or 2. Its really not a big deal, but yes hes throwing shade.

I don’t know... given how many media outlets have blown the admitted success of AlphaGo out of proportion, it makes sense to me that you might see professionals in this field sharing commentary to try and bring the hyperbole closer to reality.

I’m not sure I put neutrality and manufactured drama along the same spectrum of options. One can have a bias while still accurately reporting, and one can be neutral in your treatment of differing POVs while grossly exaggerating remarks to manufacturer drama where it doesn’t exist. Both bias and manufactured drama are…

Can’t disagree about raging assholes on twitter or any other social platform, yet I fail to see where that applies in this situation. Besides, the platform doesn’t define the content.. Academic debate can occur anywhere people choose to communicate, even if that puts their communication right alongside other…

This comment hit the nail on the head. There is NOTHING sensational about what the Facebook engineer said. This is common fact check in the technical and scientific world. Journalists with no technical degree like Sophie will never understand that.

Leading AI researchers corrects sensationalist media headlines that misrepresent science and gives context to accomplishment. Sensationalist media outlet misrepresents correction of media with more sensationalist headlines. Oh the irony.

He’s not casting shade on Google so much as correcting the over-zealous media…

However, LeCun is posting and making comments he would most likely not make if Facebook were the one making headlines with this silly human vs machine Go challenge.

“Throwing shade” or “shade” is slang for disrespecting or insulting someone, usually subtly or indirectly.

This is the sort of tabloid-style ‘journalism’ that makes it difficult to ignore that no matter how many quality articles exist; Gizmodo is still at heart a Gawker Media property.

Dear Sophie Kleeman, are you sure you’re not trying to create beef in a place where there is no beef?

It’s denouncement and disrespect to congratulate someone and ask some clarifying technical questions, point out different ways something can be done? That’s just academic debate, and not even particularly fiery debate. The drama implied by the author’s language throughout the post isn’t present in the reality she’s…

No, he’s not criticized harshly.. But he is called a nerd, accused of publicly denouncing and disrespecting Google’s AI efforts, and accused of being grumpy. All with a giggle and a smile (hyperbole perhaps, but that’s how I read her tone) by the author, but that doesn’t mean she’s actually correct in her subtle…

I’m really not reading the attitude in this guy’s posts that the author here does. I see a subject matter expert sharing news about a competitor, and sometimes adding facts that he seems to think are important qualifications. I don’t know the material well enough, nor have I read all his links, so I can’t say if he’s…