I dabble in hobby A.I. as well as train deep learning models at work. Consider predictive text on your phone. Now scale it up with neural networks and more processing power. You can now converse with it as it gives weights and values to words and phrases to arrive at the best statistical response. You're talking to math.. but it is coherent. Now, give it a black site super quantum computer that can run infinite simultaneous simulations due to parallel omnipresent juxtapositions of data and you have a system that can give you a scripted playbook for arriving at a precise desired outcome in the future. This is how I grasp project looking glass. If I've hit the nail on the head, somebody get me outa this hellride-to-nowhere job I work at.