He adopts a conspiratorial lens, (or at least implies it), that neurosymbolic AI was "kept down" over the last 4 decades, which is a very funny reframing of the

He adopts a conspiratorial lens, (or at least implies it), that neurosymbolic AI was "kept down" over the last 4 decades, which is a very funny reframing of the fact that it simply never was useful enough to lift itself off the ground by the virtue of its own merits in the first place. If a ground-up neurosymbolic approached had shown promise in getting an AI system to the general level of intelligence LLM's have reached, it would have been adopted and scaled up. The money, research and effort went to what was useful, and transformers won out by virtue of their undeniable utility.