100%. If they could learn anything, then shouldn't modern ML systems be able to solve the big mysteries in science -- since we have large datasets there describing the phenomena in various ways? E.g. dark energy, dark matter, matter-antimatter asymmetry, or even outstanding problems in pure mathematics.

The intention of this sama post is as you said, it's to build narrative so he can raise his trillion from the Arab world or other problematic sources.

In pseudocode, this is Sam Altman:

while(alive) { RaiseCapital() }