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I believe this paper by Marcus ( https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1801/1801.00631.pdf ) earlier this week inspired this.

Edit: I don't mean Marcus inspired the term differentiable programming; he inspired LeCun to emphasize the wider scope of deep learning after Marcus attacked it. In fact, LeCun liked a post on twitter rebutting Marcus' paper that also talks about differentiable programming: https://twitter.com/tdietterich/status/948811917593780225

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I don't think so. LeCun seems to oppose Marcus's views...

I think LeCun doesn't want a repeat of AI winter because of exponentially rising hype and expectations out of Deep Learning. There have been few examples like Selena which he seems to think that people are trying to ride the deep learning wave to generate false buzz (and cash!) for themselves.

He does oppose Marcus' views, but he also knows neural nets are only one approach to differentiable programming. The term is confusing though. It should read like "linear programming" does, but people are not interpreting it that way.

Discussion about that paper here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16083469

I can guarantee you that Marcus has in no way ever inspired LeCun.

Or the other way around... He has been throwing around the term for awhile now.

It was most certainly the other way around. Marcus does not focus on differentiable programming in his paper. See my edit.

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