So Hinton is taking exactly 1 component of the *potential* frameworks of human understanding, & claiming that 1) that is all of human understanding, 2) that generative "AI" understands in exactly the same way, & thus 3) that generative "AI" understands like humans.
Honestly that's just bad logic.
Hinton has turned into AI companies’ favorite science mascot. I’m convinced he knows better but he got himself a lucrative gig in the lecturing circuit and he’s riding that wave until it crashes.
Once again, we meet Upton Sinclair's observation:
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
