The speaker considers the statement that there will be a theory of deep learning vacuous because many theories of deep learning arguably already exist.

“my exactly five thousand pages big book where I categorize everything that is is to know by the time you're done it's going to be completely out of date and useless like probably lots of things you write in there are completely wrong so I think that right now there is no that there is no way to have like of course we have a theory of deep learning I talked about the this paper like this there will be a theory of deep learning it's kind of a vacuous statement because”

“Well, arguably we already have plenty of them. Uh the the the problem is more that to have something like physics have I don't think the entire field is set up to do that. And I think that it will not be set up to do that and”