This Man Is the Godfather the AI Community Wants to Forget

I don't have a feeling anyone wants him to go away, me and most of my peers (PhD) students hold him in rather high regard. Also feeling he is right about the fact that so much deep learning work is just derivative and marginally improving over original LSTM work.

This is an uncomfortably biased article, I think

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/27/technology/artificial-int...

is much more balanced.