Utter nonsense non-journalism feeding the hype.<p>The mechanisms of current AI methods are not only well-understood, there are explainer videos that get posted here on the regular that can even explain it to you, the credulous Vox reader.<p>Indeed, the fact of the matter is that we have had this tech for a very long time, but we have dedicated our compute capacities to other important matters, such as fake money for criminals.<p>It is extremely comprehensible, and the people who are currently huffing VC money about it are trying to sell an image of wizards conjuring daemons to gull a Terminator-groomed public into begging the friendly capitalists to please control this monster and save us all from Skynet!<p>Embarrassing.