> This is so wrong I will not bother with the rest of the claims, this author is unqualified

I find these comments pretty amusing. The author you’re referring to is François Chollet, an esteemed and widely published AI researcher whose code you’ve probably used if you’ve ever played around with ML (he created Keras and, as a Google employee, is a key contributor to Tensorflow).

So no, he’s not “unqualified,” and if you think he’s confused about a very basic area of human or machine cognition, you very likely don’t understand his claim, or are yourself confused.

Based on your response, you’re probably a little of both.