I can't help but see this as another example of the pattern in which a big name in a field gets up and says that the current direction of their field (deep lear

I can't help but see this as another example of the pattern in which a big name in a field gets up and says that the current direction of their field (deep learning) is great and all but not really making progress on the big question (intelligence), and that to solve that question we need to solve another big question (what is causality) before we can make true progress. Other examples to me are Chomsky on consciousness and its implications for language, Einstein on causality w.r.t. quantum theory. This isnt to say the big name is wrong, just to point out a potential pattern.