The article says: "However, the kinds of tasks addressed by AI systems tend to differ significantly from traditional algorithmic tasks such as sorting lists of

The article says: "However, the kinds of tasks addressed by AI systems tend to differ significantly from traditional algorithmic tasks such as sorting lists of numbers or calculating square roots." Yes, those tasks do significantly differ from the mathematical calculation tasks that algorithms are traditionally associated with BUT the whole idea of AI is to take those tasks and represent them as algorithmic tasks so that they can be solved using computers. No matter which human cognition concept you associate to a computer, the reality is that the only thing that a computer can do is run the given algorithm. Somehow most of the AI community is just fascinated about giving computers the ability to "think" or have "perception" etc without realising that what they are actually doing is "representation as calculations".