"OK, it might be much better at math than me, but it's not smarter, it just remembers more".

Heh. Every day, a new type of cope. It's like, coping as hard as possible.

If this was an ML researcher trying to come up with a way to improve performance then you could say it wasn't cope but rather practical observation to serve a goal.

But it's just cope.

Also, AI is going to continue to get smarter. A lot smarter. There are already systems in R&D that will continue increasing efficiency and performance of hardware by more orders of magnitude.