alt Hacker NewsNo it's a completely serious question. The goal has always been to replicate human/biological thinking processes in software, and now that this has been more or less achieved he's suddenly not happy about it. There's been plenty of opportunity to actually think about "what if all of this actually works" but they chose not to.
For one thing, we haven't remotely achieved that. GenAI is a statistical model, it cannot think or reason. So one reason he might lament the status quo is because it has people thinking we have achieved AI when we haven't. But also, it wasn't apparent until recently that even if the tech did work as promised, it will be an awful thing because humans will use it to bad ends. I don't think it's particularly blame-worthy that he didn't foresee that 50 years ago.