Sure, I agree. Evolution did not take us from horse and buggy to planes and autonomous cars in 100-ish years. But when we push up against the limits of the pro

Sure, I agree. Evolution did not take us from horse and buggy to planes and autonomous cars in 100-ish years. But when we push up against the limits of the problems we can solve with software, it's usually because it has outgrown our ability to understand it. That's exactly what is happening with this new burst of progress in machine learning. We're "teaching" the computer to do things, and we've let go of the ability to directly understand how the computer "represents its learnings."