Chief scientist of major corporation can’t handle criticism of the work he hypes
I replied to LeCun&#x27;s claims about their latest protein structure predictor and he immediately got defensive.  The problem is that i&#x27;m an expert in that realm and he is not.  My statements were factual (pointing out real limitations in their system along with the lack of improvement over AlphaFold) and he responded by regurgitating the same misleading claims everybody in ML who doesn&#x27;t understand biology makes.  I&#x27;ve seen this pattern repeatedly.<p>It&#x27;s too bad because you really do want leaders who listen to criticism carefully and don&#x27;t immediately get defensive.