No, but he does have quite the incentive to over-hype the capabilities of LLMs.

And he also has knowledge that isn't available to the public.

Combined with his generally measured approach, I would trust this over the observations of a layman with incentive to believe his career isn't 100% shot, because that sucks, of course you'd think that.

Unfortunately, it appears to be.

> Combined with his generally measured approach

People sang similar praises of Sam Bankman-Fried, and that story ended with billions going up in flames. People can put on very convincing masks, and they can even fool themselves.