Well that “whiney french facebook AI tech” proposed back-propagation in neural networks, a trick AlphaGo most likely uses, so he is not your average schmuck.

I hope people realize Yann LeCunn is not just “some nerd”. He’s one of the leaders in the field of Deep Learning for the past two decades. In fact, his neural network models are used every day since the 90's to recognize your handwritten zip code digits on envelopes that you mail.