Totally agreed; intelligence (IMHO) is all about using pattern matching to model and reason about a domain. Social things like us get some of that acquired pat

Totally agreed; intelligence (IMHO) is all about using pattern matching to model and reason about a domain. Social things like us get some of that acquired pattern matching knowledge from other social things. I guess the difference is that supervised learning systems can't yet make an autonomous effort to acquire new knowledge from other social things.