No it's a completely serious question. The goal has always been to replicate human/biological thinking processes in software, and now that this has been more or less achieved he's suddenly not happy about it. There's been plenty of opportunity to actually think about "what if all of this actually works" but they chose not to.

Sounds like sour grapes. He worked on it for a long time but he doesn't own a trillion dollar company. Missed the boat?