[philipswood]

> and yet these systems know nothing at all. Far too many people (including the developers of such systems) have failed to understand that none of these systems can go beyond the programming that humans have incorporated into them.

> within the constraints of the programming involved in them

I think the point of machine learning is that programming isn't "incorporated into them".

These systems may not be intelligent yet, but we certainly didn't program them - the majority of their features and abilities arise from the training data they were exposed to.