He has plenty of trufans to whom the world looks a little different. To us, he looks like a touchy, petulant little man with far more money than sense. To them, everything he's doing is part of some Master Plan.
Right, but for this to work, that cohort has to include some incredibly talented people with relevant experience so the pool he can draw from is vanishingly small.
I doubt people like Hinton or LeCun or any of their successors in the field would come anywhere near that crazy charlatan.
