The Grid deserves criticism, but please focus what we actually promised and are starting to deliver. The challenge and potential are immense.

(I work for the Grid.)

James Seibel claims that our product was marketed as a general purpose thinking machine:

It isn’t going to replace software developers, and it isn’t going to allow you to build tech startups without an engineering team.

Nothing in our crowdfunding marketing, site, or video claims that we’re building Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Before that line, he makes a fair summary of what the Grid was actually pitched to be:

Essentially a glorified Wordpress that easily integrates with social media and e-commerce, that auto-resizes for various screen sizes, and provides beautiful design automatically. Or at least this is the end goal, if they can work out all the bugs.

Working out the bugs is what we’re pouring our hearts and souls into. It takes time, which is why we have extended the beta period. We won’t rest until our founding members are genuinely happy with the experience of adding content, and the smart design output.

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(For a fun primer on the state of AI and the difference between AGI and Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI), read Wait But Why’s The AI Revolution.)

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… Tesler’s Theorem writ large: “AI is whatever hasn’t been done yet.” Once AI is successfully applied to a problem, it’s dismissed as not “real intelligence.”
The big critique is that you were promised AI but all you’re getting are “templates and some algorithms.” I mean, what do you think AI is? Magic? I hate to break it to folks, but AI is just “some algorithms” applied to a problem domain.
 — _pius on hackernews last time one of these articles came out