The more I understand AI technology the less magic and powerful it seems. More traditional AI is often logic or algorithm based. This is powerful and expressiv

The more I understand AI technology the less magic and powerful it seems. More traditional AI is often logic or algorithm based. This is powerful and expressive, but the "intelligence" part is as flexible as the specific implementation. This is intelligent in the sense of a design being intelligent, which can be attributed to the author of said design. Modern AI is often statistical. We have more data, so we can use that to generate a de-facto decision making database with statistically sound heuristics. These techniques are all useful and can be very impactful. But we have to understand them as tools. Your article agrees with this sentiment in a very entertaining way.