It doesn't ring true and it never rang true. He was wrong in 2022 and he'd be wrong today. He had (and likely still has) a wrong model of LLMs. Not exaggerating 2022 capabilities and having a model so wrong you're out of whack 4 years later are 2 different things. There are people who had the right idea from the start.
And his comments about ANNs in general were wrong. ANNs were never "fancy search engines". You can train them to be a fancy search engine if you want, but you can also train them to do many other things.
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that comment 100% rings true for 2022. Why would that person not stand by that?
Conversely, if someone exaggerated 2022 models capabilities in 2022, they were still lying and causing harm in the process. Especially in 2022.