I think you're missing the point. The idea is that artificial intelligence will prevent us from having to understand a lot of things in order to accomplish the

I think you're missing the point. The idea is that artificial intelligence will prevent us from having to understand a lot of things in order to accomplish them, but that effect is no different than any other technological innovation we have made. The definition of AI has also changed plenty in the past sixty-something years we've been developing it. A couple of good Wiki links on the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_artificial_intelligence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_artificial_intellig... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter