Pieces like this remind me that even professors need to sell what they do, like saying "Humans cannot really understand them." in this case. Never have we ever had more simulation tools and compute power like we have today and we can't understand how these chips really work?

I think this is an example of mystifying-for-marketing as used in academia, like portraying this research as some breakthrough at a level that exceeds human understanding. IMHO practitioners of science should be expected to do better than this.