Usually when patent applications are made they are written up to be as general as possible and will then steadily be whittled down until they're accepted. That

Usually when patent applications are made they are written up to be as general as possible and will then steadily be whittled down until they're accepted. That said, I really don't see how a number of these will get even close to validation. Quite a few are describing an absolutely generic, everyday process with so much prior art it's insane (recurrent neural network?). If I'm missing anything here I'd love if someone could correct and inform me.