I dont' actually want to get into this thread now, but I've got to say that McLovin (haha!) has a great point here. It's waaaay too early to be saying that any of these kids are a bust.
You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you will tell me precisely what it is that a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that! -J. von Neumann