There is a difference in reading Hawking or another humble scientist versus this author. The cockiness of the author is off putting. Science is filled with mistakes and this author spends substantially more time on success than failures, as if it hides the numerous flaws AI has had through the last seventy years (it covers some flaws, but not in significant depth). Learning from mistakes makes for a better story! And it helps others interested in the field from making those same mistakes.