I love McCarthy's work but this is nonsense. Current AI work is all about the relationship between differdntiable connectionist systems and algorithmic/symbolic

I love McCarthy's work but this is nonsense. Current AI work is all about the relationship between differdntiable connectionist systems and algorithmic/symbolic computation. AI researchers are well aware of the parallels between this and subconscious/conscious human thought and things like Kahnemann's system1 vs system2 thinking. "Is the brain like a computer" is too ambiguous a question to take seriously. His article is interesting in parts but really arrogant and not as novel or anti-mainstream as he seems to think it is. It sounds like someone who spent a long time chatting with physicists or biologists and no time reading research in artificial intelligence, at least from the last decade.