> I have no idea what this means.

You can throw a ball up in the air and predict that it will fall again and bounce. You have no understanding of mass, gravity, acceleration, momentum, impulse, elasticity...

You can press a button that makes an Uber car appear in reality and take you home. You have no understanding of apps, operating systems, radio, internet, roads, wheels, internal combustion engines, driving, GPS, maps...

This confusion of understanding and prediction affects a lot of people who use technology in a "machine-like" way, purely instrumental and utilitarian... "how does this get me what I want immediately?"

You can take any complex reality and deflate it, abstract it, reduce it down to a mere set of predictions that preserve all the utility for a narrow task (in this case visual facsimile) but strip away all depth of meaning. The models, of both the system and the internal working model of the user are flattened. In this sense "AI" is probably the greatest assault on actual knowledge since the book burning under totalitarian regimes of the mid 20th century.