Comment by hackinthebochs

There's a reason Max Planck said science advances one funeral at a time. Researches spend their lives developing and promoting the ideas they cut their teeth on (or in this case developed himself) and their view of what is possible becomes ossified around these foundational beliefs. Expecting him to be flexible enough in his advanced age to view LLMs with a fresh perspective, rather than strongly informed by his core theoretical views is expecting too much.