Comment Re:Stop calling it AI. (Score 4, Insightful) 78
It's a series of complex rules with some pattern recognition
That is also a pretty good description of what a brain does.
That's a pretty-good description of what an *adult* brain does, but it's not a good description of intelligence - artificial or otherwise. Your adult brain learned the rules from its environment with no assumptions about what those rules were.
Try writing an algorithm that can learn to play either chess or checkers, depending on what game it sees.
Make that same algorithm be able to play asteroids, or drive a car, or OCR.
Make that same algorithm be able to recognize a tune ("row row row your boat") even if it's played in a different key, at a different speed, with variations in tempo, and even variations in key.
Any time you know beforehand what the rules are you are not simulating intelligence - you are simulating the *results* of intelligence. You are just writing down whatever it is that the intelligence in your head has decided.
The intelligence never makes it into the program - it stays in your head.