I wonder if that's on purpose, but I interpreted the title as metaphorical first, thinking it was another dystopian fantasy about computers taking over the world.
I went on a similar, but slightly different path. I thought it was an article not so much about a dystopian fantasy, but about the harsh (and in some ways also dystopian) reality of AI and ML systems not being "debuggable" and understandable by humans like traditional algorithmic systems had been, which effectively means that we can only reason about decisions of such systems to a very limited degree.
No, not just you, exactly how I read it too
I thought so but then I saw that it was forbes and quickly figured it was simply a pun and it probably refers to some kind of automated sailing system.
I've only read the first paragraph of TFA and it looks like I was right.