At the risk of looking like I take the "Singularly" at all seriously...(and putting aside the non-sequitur about Kurzweil having anything to do with Google's shipping software)...
The implication you're making is that because computers have weird little glitches that pop up to cause havoc every once in a while, then it must be laughable to imagine they could rival the marvels of human intelligence. What that tells me for certain is that you haven't paid much attention to human intelligence.
There are flat-earthers, anti-vaccine nuts, and people convinced we faked the moon landings. We'll happily argue for thousands of years over whether the kid a virgin had is or is not the same person as his dad, but not that dad, the other dad. Show me someone who intuitively understands probabilities, and I'll show you someone who incorrectly assesses how people understand probabilities. I'm pretty sure the odd bug here and there doesn't disprove the ability of machines to outthink us.
I've found that I generally regret doing this kind of thing to the extent that you need to do it to make a meaningful difference. The problem is that all this stuff comes at a cost -- my source code is no longer structured in a semantically meaningful way.
The SICP quote comes to mind here: "Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." I greatly prefer to have my code organized in a sensible way. I want to know that "here is where the FooWidget code is".
It's not the end of the world, and people can adjust, but part of what I hate about working on just about anyone's Java code is this constant mental assault of "no, you need to be in the FooWidgetFactoryImpl file to find that code". Just let me have "customer.cpp" or whatever, and I'll live with grabbing coffee during the build.
Admittedly, I don't work on truly large applications. I can imagine priorities change when builds take two hours instead of the 15 minutes I might have to live with.
I think Prolog suffers in that comparison mostly because of its much more ambitious scope. Most non-developer/DBA people have no concept of what a SQL query is actually doing, whereas most nontrivial Prolog programs require conceptualizing the depth-first-search you're asking the language to perform in order to get it right. If you restricted your Prolog world to the kind of "do some inference on a simple family tree database of facts" that people first learn, Prolog would be pretty easy too.
The implication you're making is that because computers have weird little glitches that pop up to cause havoc every once in a while, then it must be laughable to imagine they could rival the marvels of human intelligence. What that tells me for certain is that you haven't paid much attention to human intelligence.
There are flat-earthers, anti-vaccine nuts, and people convinced we faked the moon landings. We'll happily argue for thousands of years over whether the kid a virgin had is or is not the same person as his dad, but not that dad, the other dad. Show me someone who intuitively understands probabilities, and I'll show you someone who incorrectly assesses how people understand probabilities. I'm pretty sure the odd bug here and there doesn't disprove the ability of machines to outthink us.