[rbits]

I don't know if I buy that an AI wouldn't have been able to come up with touchscreen. It knows people touch screens with pens, and it knows people point and touch things that aren't screens. It could put those ideas together, that's how people came up with

[kivle]

It's not an AI. It's a word probability model. Trained on tons of text. It's not smart at all. The only reason why it might have "figured that out" is because it was actually present in scifi texts in the 60s. The other reason would be that you increased the temperature to something like 100, and then you think you see something genius in some hallucinations, among other unreadable text.