it's _Artificial_ ! Maybe their example sucked but Search engines fall into AI in my book. I think the author is emphasizing the complexity behind very simple

it's _Artificial_ ! Maybe their example sucked but Search engines fall into AI in my book. I think the author is emphasizing the complexity behind very simple things. Obviously, it's not intelligent but it's doing way more than expected. To me "intelligence" in software is about hiding complexity, making decisions and deducing things based on data, predicting and adapting based on input to deliver unforeseen results using a simple UI (where UI could be keywords in a search engine or a warehouse reorganizing itself to deliver and locate stuff faster based on new input/output). The next generation of software is not about building actual intelligent systems. It's about accomplishing specific tasks and delivering more than expected. Think of your IDE fixing your most common typos because it's constantly analyzing your input, or a file selection program that saves patterns/dependencies between your opened files and tries to guess which file you mean when you hit `gt` etc. To me, this is smart behavior or _artificial_ intelligence. This is as far as software will ever get unless you start mixing it with biological stuff.