Maybe Sam meant it more generally - humanity has achieved a lot over past thousands of years, and now we are finally close to interacting with systems that are more capable intellectually.
I uploaded a photo of myself and this tool identified my ethnicity as Caucasian, which according to DNA tests is not correct. Also it was not able to recognize the brand of a cap I was wearing even though it should be obvious to a human. But it gave an interesting/useful description of the stones near me.