People often confuse not being able to understand how something is possible with it being impossible. Despite all the progress being made by using a little bit

People often confuse not being able to understand how something is possible with it being impossible. Despite all the progress being made by using a little bit of design, and a whole lot of brute force, people keep saying it can’t work, and they keep being proven wrong. Ironically I think this means AI won’t be creating AI in an exponentially increasing way - because AI is more about scaling and emergence of dumb elements than it is about grand designs.