We continue to figure out new ways to make those calculations do more complicated things faster than humans.
What is intelligence beyond calculation is an ancient question, but not the one I'm most interested in at the moment, re: today's tools.
I'm curious right now about if there's meaning to other people in human creation vs automation creation. E.g. is there a meaningful difference between an algorithm curating a feed of human-made TikTok videos and an algorithm both curating and creating a feed of human-made TikTok videos.
Both qualitatively in terms of "would people engage with it to the same level" and quantitatively in terms of "how many new trends would emerge, how would they vary, how does that machine ecosystem of content generation behave compared to a human one" if you remove any human curation/training/feedback/nudging/etc from the flow beyond just "how many views/likes did you get?"