The thing I gather is a lot of these people were never experts. Just like crypto, a lot of grifters and hype men gather around the tech because they see it like

The thing I gather is a lot of these people were never experts. Just like crypto, a lot of grifters and hype men gather around the tech because they see it like a get rich quick scheme, and being the type who are grifters, they are far too lazy to learn any of the actual details. They instead just harp on the popular narratives, one among them "your brain is a neural net!" that I've heard repeated ad nauseum even here on HN for almost ten years now.