The US could just drop nukes on any country they have a trade dispute with. They don't, because that is insane and disproportionate and they have the capability to do better than that.
What Israel did here is something you would expect from a terrorist organization.
You're shopping for groceries. someone is standing next to you. Their pager explodes and you are severely injured. You never had anything to do with this war.
Still think it's surgical? By that definition 9/11 was surgical as well, after all they only targeted two towers and just a few people who happened to be there got hurt.
> Part of me feels that we are losing something, moving away from these classic approaches to AI
Absolutely. Seems a large amount of software developers have moved on from trying to understand how things work to solve the problem, and they are now instead just essentially throwing shit at a magical wall until something sticks long enough.
You're there because you are reliant on their expertise and can't just do it yourself. Otherwise you'd be doing so.