Yes, this paper is under-appreciated. The point is that we as humans decide what constitutes a given task we're going to set as a bar and it turns out that stat

Yes, this paper is under-appreciated. The point is that we as humans decide what constitutes a given task we're going to set as a bar and it turns out that statistical pattern matching can solve many of those tasks to a reasonable level (we also get to define "reasonable") when there's sufficient scale of parameters and data, but that tip-over point is entirely arbitrary.