Here's a sobering thought: most insects have five ganglia or so. That's their whole nervous system. With that amount of processing power they manage to do vision, navigation of complex environments, and a range of tasks unavailable to computers like predation and avoidance of predation, mating and avoiding mortal danger from adverse environmental conditions.

Five ganglia. In terms of the article's overdone analogy (lake what?) that's barely a teacup.

And still we haven't managed to put together a machine that can function in the world with the autonomy and the success of an insect.

So, you know, don't be surprised if you wake up forty years from now and wonder "where's my AI" in the same way that we wonder about our jetpacks today. Hype is easy. AI Is hard.