All computing is rapid button sorting, that we can instruct this button sorting to where it looks like magic to us says more about our intelligence then it does any mythical machine intelligence. Or put another way , a computer can count to 1, many times, very fast. It is amazing how much information can be stored by counting to 1. I didn't find Noah's article to be very profound or interesting for that matter. Maybe because I've been reading and thinking about thinking machines since I was about 10. From the good doctor's law of robotics to Mycroft Holmes, to Hal, to Laumer's BOLO fighting machines. and others that are out there that I've forgotten. All of those stories were more about us and who we are. We can;t talk about machine intelligence in a rational manner because we don't even understand human intelligence. or how it comes about or functions. I remember my Educational Psychology professor explaining IQ. What is IQ? It is what the IQ test measures, so what does the test really measure? IQ! That was 40 years ago and we have made some progress but not much.