That makes me remember that as a small kid there were certain spots in my environment beyond which, I was conviced, infinite wilderness would adjoin or the world would just end (for example behind forests or hedges). Growing older I was often sobered when I discrovered there was just bog-standard urban landscape.

Yet, the machine seems to come from an entirely differernt direction. It has much more facts accumulated than a child and can articulate and process them to absolute precision.

I remember visiting my childhood elementary school and seeing that the "forest" behind the building was just a scraggly patch of trees with a chain-link fence on the other side. It seemed so much bigger back then...