I don't think his later comments really negate his earlier comments.

Neural networks continue to make progress in the narrow field they are designed for and researching these I'm sure continues to be interesting. That doesn't change the point that human don't interpret an image as a couple of annotations but as rich fabric of information far beyond what computer vision current does.

Basically, there is a ocean of interesting, useful and excite things computers can do before they arrive at what humans can do.