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by blauditore 2995 days ago
I'm not sure whether it's intentionally been worded that way, but that sentence makes only a statement about hardware, not software. So technically, it's correct that the hardware is more capable than that of a human ("sees" and "hears" more), but it's the software that's not up to par.
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That's like "Made with 100% local organic chicken" is only pointing out that the organic chicken is local, unlike the non-organic chicken whose provenance is not guaranteed.

That would be great to live in the world of marketing people where everyone is so able to parse weasel words. That would solve the fake news problem overnight.

People still use waterproof and water resistant interchangeably. People don't get the difference. Same with HW/SW, they won't know the difference. They read this web page and they think they are buying a self driving car.
bizarre statement

is there any point in saying that a hypothetical brain-dead, comatose bodybuilder is stronger than a starving man?

Yes, if the bodybuilder can be software-upgraded remotely out of the coma.
And if the coma was remote software upgrade induced? Stretching the analogy a bit, but a lot of people hype Tesla’s remote updates without considering how many remote updates tend to brick our devices.
Then there's still point in making the claim.