I actually catch myself sometimes saying or thinking the tooltip text. :)
But what Deutsch writes here is somewhat opposite in approach to the problem of how to be annoying--he's trying make a non-physics research area seem fundamentally more complicated than it likely is. I'm willing to say it borders on mysticism, and the only reason I can think of for such behaviour in an otherwise fine scientist is a strong emotional attachment to some romantic idea of what it is to be a human being. There is zero (AFAIK) theoretical or empirical evidence for his grand claims about creativity, and he's playing the old game in AI: goalpost moving. Whenever AI does something that was previously thought to be only achievable by humans, the critics immediately jump and say: "Ah, but that's not really intelligent, is it?"
But what Deutsch writes here is somewhat opposite in approach to the problem of how to be annoying--he's trying make a non-physics research area seem fundamentally more complicated than it likely is. I'm willing to say it borders on mysticism, and the only reason I can think of for such behaviour in an otherwise fine scientist is a strong emotional attachment to some romantic idea of what it is to be a human being. There is zero (AFAIK) theoretical or empirical evidence for his grand claims about creativity, and he's playing the old game in AI: goalpost moving. Whenever AI does something that was previously thought to be only achievable by humans, the critics immediately jump and say: "Ah, but that's not really intelligent, is it?"