So now computers use AI to do something, interesting...
I always liked how it's always "AI did X" or "AI discovered Y", but never a "crane built a building".
E.g.1: Galileo saw Jupiter, not The telescope saw Jupiter.
E.g.2: Joe built the wall, not The crane built the wall.
In this case, AI is the thinker, not a human, hence the phrasing.
A human creating the AI does not remove the attribution either, just as we never say Joe's mother built the wall just because Joe was created by his mother.
It is a tool.
the average code monkey cranking out web microservices is not exactly plato either here, after all. look at the existing codebase, try to mimic the style, can you have the PR by friday?
As an AI specialist, I strongly object that statement. There's usually very little surprise in what "AI has discovered", usually we spend months of hard work to make it discover that one thing. But all the credit goes to "AI" :)
PS: I'm yet to see an AI (in any area) that's the thinker.