Ted Chiang revealed himself at his NeurIPS "Pluralism and Creativity" workshop to be... a great book author and not much else. His statements during his panels with the other AI researchers proved that he was not up to date on modern AI research.

He's overly sentimental, and so are his books. I wish there were other sci-fi authors that the AI community wanted to contact but after "Arrival" I get it since "Arrival" is the literal wet-dream of many NLP/AI researchers.