AI researcher perhaps, but almost none of them understand cognition. They're focussed on getting something that vaguely resembles a part of the brain to predict the next most likely token. Their idea of cognition apparently stops at Skinner.
Any AI researcher worth their salt knows that those models aren't representative of how the human brain works... but they're just the kind of models that work best out of what we know how to implement right now. There are models with stronger cognitive inspiration, but their performance is worse.
