The author specifically calls ML non-human computing and I believe is talking about the advances in ML from a theoretical standpoint. I don’t believe it is poss

The author specifically calls ML non-human computing and I believe is talking about the advances in ML from a theoretical standpoint. I don’t believe it is possible to lump the human written software used to train models, generate adversarial examples, and perform other tasks on GPUs, as purely non human computing. In fact, a lot of the advances in computing recently are specifically to enable this type of computing to be more efficient: easily parallelize training, analyze bigger datasets, graph databases, and other “big data” technologies. In any case, software notebooks definitely existed before Jupyter like you say (I’m not familiar with Wolf but Mathematica has a similar idea), but I don’t believe they date back to 1996. I might be mistaken. I don’t see the author mention them in the text.