Oh, it is very much a truth, I agree. The machine is the purpose - you can see it in all of her designs, which are very directed, intentionally, towards well-stated goals.

As for the goal of making systems which cannot run AI - this goal has always been intrinsically fulfilled by Moores law. For as long as we were progressing towards the singularity, we were incapable of it. Whether that is of importance now, as if it were ever not, is a matter of interest in the results: do we panic about AI now, or 20 years ago?

I think that there is enough of Paula Maddox out there to prove we don’t really need AI to do great things, just great people.