I seen this my whole life in Business. IT constantly try to sell management with the notion the machine can replace the person. To an extent that is true. As long as it involves no reasoning at all the computer can be taught to weld a bead or fasten lug nuts on a car wheel.
Where the computer will always fail is anytime it has to reason. As I keep telling my bosses for the last 30 years, “the computer can not be taught when to cheat, people can.”
The computer can absolutely be taught to reason with regard to limited problems and can absolutely be taught when to cheat.
Spoken like someone that’s never played Madden. Computers cheat all the time.
What you are claiming was pretty much a correct assessment in say, the 1960s.