Vapnik says "Deep Learning is the Devil"...maybe

Zach Lipton gave a summary of Vapnik's talk at Second Yandex School of Data Analysis conference (October 5-8, 2015, Berlin). Lipton wrote:

Vapnik posited that ideas and intuitions come either from God or from the devil. The difference, he suggested is that God is clever, while the devil is not. 

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Vapnik suggested that the devil appeared always in the form of brute force.

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[Vapnik] suggested that the study of machine learning is like trying to build a Stradivarius, while engineering solutions for practical problems was more like being a violinist

My interpretation of all this is that this is about the difference between science and engineering, or general vs specific. Coming up with a good general algorithm, I'm guessing Vapnik is thinking of SVMs or the idea of neural networks, is the study or science of ML, but most successes of Deep Learning (or really just particular and particularly large neural networks) come from the given design of the DL network.

As to clever vs brute force, somehow the statement that can be extracted is that DL is not clever but devilishly brute force. I'm not sure how to make sense of this (I don't see how DL is more brute force that SVM or logistic regression or random forests). Unless all the work that must be done in engineering a good DL is in creating the topology of nodes; this is not automatic at all but needs a lot of cleverness to make a successful learner. But the DL part enables that cleverness (which would otherwise be impossible).

Cleverness is not easily scalable; you can't just throw a whole bunch of extra nodes and arbitrary connections into a DL and hope it learns connections well, you have to  organize the layers well. Those details,, the needed to be clever is what slows down the scaling and I am guessing it what is 'devilish' about DL.

This is all second hand and rewording of suggestions through someone's hearsay, and connecting dots that are barely mentioned and far apart. I'm totally putting words in his mouth, but this is what I expect Vapnik really means (or what I think Lipton thinks that Vapnik thinks, all telegraphically expressed). But really how much of anything is really not that?