I agree that this wasn&#x27;t done by the computer (did computers uncover the Higgs Boson?) but I also do not believe humans can take most of the credit: this was the result of a Man Machine System team up—trying to disentangle credit assignment is not a worthwhile activity. Roughly and from a quick reading of a paper thickly frosted with jargon I am unfamiliar with, the method works by creating networks—which highlight key relationships—for visualization by searching for stable clusters in a reduced dimensionality space of the variables.<p>Humans are there to explore the visualizations, interpret the network structures and understand the clusters and variables. The machines are intelligent too; they do the heavy work of comparing large numbers of points in a high dimensional space, factorization and searching for a way to express the data in a manner that makes it easier to uncover promising research directions and hypotheses.<p>Scanning this, it seems the most valuable contribution are their network visualization and exploratory tools. I think they should be proud of those and see no need to stretch so mightily to connect this to Stronger AI. As Vinge notes, &quot;I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.&quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;ncomms&#x2F;2015&#x2F;151014&#x2F;ncomms9581&#x2F;full&#x2F;ncomms9581.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;ncomms&#x2F;2015&#x2F;151014&#x2F;ncomms9581&#x2F;full&#x2F;nco...</a>