programmable coffee pot

Some computers take action or make decisions based on sensory inputs, yes, but they are no more intelligent than a programmable coffee pot.

это один Peter L. Levin пишет в The Case Against the Case Against AI

я думаю, вот этот Peter L. Levin как раз no more intelligent than a programmable coffee pot. дальше - больше:

...in the case of a cockpit (or a generative speech synthesizer), the number of possible decisions is larger and their impact more important, but both are still constrained. It cannot do surgery. It lacks moral reflection.

поразительно какую дурь люди несут без всякого стеснения

AI only knows what is in the data. - as if humans know what is not in the data.