This is nothing resembling AI. My understanding is that it's just a number crunching machine that performs many, many repetative experiments with slight variations and comes up with results. It's not actually capable of learning, thinking, or coming up with its own experiments outside of its programming.
It's basic function is to replace human labour when it comes to repetative experiments. That's handy and all, but nothing too exciting here. Skynet isn't on the way any time soon.
