Would "it's curve fitting by building an internal representation to better describe all the curves seen so far" be a better layperson-ish analogy in your opinio

Would "it's curve fitting by building an internal representation to better describe all the curves seen so far" be a better layperson-ish analogy in your opinion? Depending on how the model is set up, we'd say 'set of basis functions', 'language', 'strategy'.