It is remarkable but I do think people are missing the forest for the trees. Stunning trees in isolation are impressive and awe-inspiring, but note that the re

It is remarkable but I do think people are missing the forest for the trees. Stunning trees in isolation are impressive and awe-inspiring, but note that the rest of the trees in the forest are made up of just the same stuff and composed in extremely similar ways! ML shows not that computers can be smart, but that smarts is just a matter of statistics + abstraction. In this way no "intelligent" being is any more impressive, just more complex and fine-tuned.