This is the closest you are going to get to something that is more-or-less accurate and that you can accept.
He is reporting that because he has to. Deep learning is not something anyone can dismiss. If Kevin Kelly thought he could downplay the massive importance of deep learning and similar technologies, or say that it wasn't AI, he would.
This is actually a fairly pessimistic article in terms of AI prediction, and yet, that title was absolutely justified.
AI is here and very powerful, and no one can deny it. People can still pretend, however, that it will never have human-like capabilities, or cannot become smarter than us (at least not in _our_ lifetimes). Give it five to ten years, human-like and beyond-human intelligence will be built, Kevin Kelly will be talking to it, and he will have to write an article about how he was wrong about everything (of course he won't admit that much).