This quote illustrates difference between the thinking of the humans that are significant or not.
Explanation:
The quote does, in a way use an argument that goes away from what it wants to talk about but does it so that an important point is understood.
We are worried if the machines can think or not but we are not worried that most people do not use their own thinking capability to the potential either and it is something that has been an issue in the society.
The focus on machine learning before human learning does say a lot about our own priorities as a society.
The Truman Doctrine was an attempt to contain communism. The United States believed that communism was bad and should not be allowed to spread beyond where it already was.