Because non-nerds now call themselves nerds as "nerd" is associated with having domain expertise in a giving subject i.e CS. In their views what we "do" is nerdy so we are by definition nerds too.
Not conventionally so, I think some of the AGI people think his un-supervised/supervised training thoughts do not lend themselves towards AGI/Strong AI.
...we meet our hosts, Katherine Gorman (nerd, journalist) and Ryan Adam (nerd, Harvard computer science professor)...
Seems a bit misplaced.
Also, Yoshua gave a great, albeit slightly controversial for the crowd, talk at AGI 14 in Quebec this summer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exhdfIPzj24