Szegedy fires back at AI skeptics: early convnet critics were directionally wrong
RubenEVillegas · x · 2026-09-27
Christoph Szegedy pushes back on Melanie Mitchell's skepticism, invoking an analogy: critics of convnets in the early 2010s were not vindicated just because later convnet-based CV systems became more sophisticated — they were directionally wrong. His implication: today's analogous critiques of AI capability may be repeating the same mistake.
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