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If anything this is why someone like LeCun isn't good at shipping a product people want.

It seems like we lack a word in English for knowing too much about a subject that you can't see the forest for the trees.

To say chatGPT is not revolutionary is as good an example of not seeing the forest for the trees that I can think of.

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Also in fairness to LeCun, that sentence started with “in terms of underlying techniques”, and his words reported in the media are guaranteed to be a subset of what he said. A journalist talked to him, found an angle, and quoted to support that angle.

What comes across is someone who downplays both the effort involved with and the importance of the “boring” stuff, the tweaks and product design that tie everything together, but we actually don’t know that he thinks like that. We just know that he said some things that can be excerpted to sound that way.

I don't know, personally I don't find anything revolutionary about ChatGPT either. At best, it's a cute toy that appeals to the masses. I think it's like looking at a cloud, people see what they want to see

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