Nothing "AI", which is just a search engine with rule sets in place to converse with someone
That statement is completely, totally wrong. That's really the whole point. Modern AI is not a search engine and does not have any rule sets. That describes expert systems, which were a popular approach to AI in the 1980s. The modern approach is the exact opposite: take a generic mathematical model and train it on huge amounts of data. If the model is big enough and you train on enough data, capabilities spontaneously emerge without anyone putting them there. It's much closer to how your brain works.
The amazing thing is that this works. Modern AI system are capable of complex intellectual tasks including memory, information recall, and reasoning, even though no one programmed those abilities and we don't even really understand how they work. They don't yet do those things nearly as well as a typical human*, but that's ok. We're on the right track and we know how to keep improving them.
*Slashdot readers excepted.