Am I the only one that cringed when Hinton described neural networks as enabling intuition in machines? I'm really hoping this was just a tortured analogy for a

Am I the only one that cringed when Hinton described neural networks as enabling intuition in machines? I'm really hoping this was just a tortured analogy for a pop-science audience (and I really hate it when world-renowned scientists do that). Why not just admit that we don't have anything close to a deep understanding of why AlphaGo did so well compared to previous approaches?