It's sad that he is the only one speaking out about Hinton. This whole Hinton glorification seems like it's being pushed by an agenda. I'm not sure if he would receive this much attention if he held a different view (closer to LeCun or Ng), rather than these Effective Altruism takes on current AI.
I don't associate Hinton will Effective Altruism. He did switch to focus on warning of the dangers of AI, but that was after he already was established as the father (or one of them) of deep learning.
Read through his papers, and these are substantial accusations. Perhaps Hinton et al. should investigate, and either a) correct themselves by properly citing these Munich researchers; or b) proove they did not base their work (unlikely) on these papers;
And then, as a whole, this weighs in favor of European scholars and also should properly inform the funding of similar research in the EU.
Writing the last in the light of a month-and-a-half wait (to date) for EuroHPC to process their own form where we submitted a funding request by no less than University + Private Company already established in the area + 4 alumni, two PHDs and one postdoc. Zero response since.