Tools versus Undersanding

This article discusses the difference between tools utilized to aid understanding versus the understanding itself and how the two are diverging as AI and neural networks come to be used in science.

So what is the nature of this missing understanding that Searle is searching for?

The nature of understanding is the very ground for transmission and accumulation of knowledge.

It is the lack of understanding and will that prevents neural networks from ever posing a mortal threat to humanity.  Neural networks and AI are tools, highly advanced tools, but nothing more.

https://aeon.co/essays/will-brains-or-algorithms-rule-the-kingdom-of-science