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I don’t get these headlines, it’s like saying a hammer sinks a nail into a board that no human ever could.

People invent tools to increase our abilities. That doesn’t mean when a human uses a tool, the tool does the work.

A human made this thing. The AI was part of the process but a human did it.

"Look at what our new tool can do" is the news.

In a very literal sense, tools are "doing the work" to precisely the degree to which it's not food calories that empower them.

AI gets attention clicks, I think.

Yeah. Just the last iteration in a long list of hype terms. Big data. Cloud ready. AI. Whatever ...