So in short, AI is't anything akin to human "intelligence" it's really just computerized information and we still need people to intelligently parse it.

This is so true! I once interviewed with a company that thought they could make Executive Assistants based solely on AI and that would eliminate the need to pay people to perform that role. I was stunned. I spent half my time fixing computer problems for my boss yet some guy who has never been an EA is going to come up with all the possible scenarios that might arise, program them into some AI version of me and solve my boss's problems? Ha!