Yeah, the result is pretty cool. It's probably how it felt to eat pizza for the first time. People had been grinding grass seeds into flour, mixing with water and putting it on hot stones for millennia. Meanwhile others had been boiling fruits into pulp and figuring out how to make milk curdle in just the right way. Bring all of that together and, boom, you have the most popular food in the world.
We're still at the stage of eating pizza for the first time. It'll take a little while to remember that you can do other things with bread and wheat, or even other foods entirely.
The whole point of algorithmic AI was that it was deterministic and - if the algorithm was correct - reliable.
I don't think anyone expected that soft/statistical linguistic/dimensional reasoning would be used as a substitute for hard logic.
It has its uses, but it's still a poor fit for many problems.