>...which is basically applied statistics. Well, one could also say that human intelligence is applied statistics, subject to biases. When you look at how we m

>...which is basically applied statistics. Well, one could also say that human intelligence is applied statistics, subject to biases. When you look at how we make decisions you'll see that we either refer to past data on the subject, or on a subject related to the issue at hand. Our past data can contain incorrect information and we'd still use it, since we don't know it's incorrect. Right up until someone comes up to us and says, "It's common sense silly, you don't adjust the side mirrors to view the back of your car but instead to view a continuous image of your back and sides along with your rear-view mirror. It's common sense". Humans are a very good example of machine learning and "AI". What we learn in our school syllabus would probably have been University level a few hundred years ago. That is to say, if you consider the human as a single state machine, it(we?) is/are getting more intelligent with the passage of time. Pardon my cynicism on humanity but I generally think that our intelligence is merely logical inference of past empirical data mixed with some healthy dose of confirmation bias. You could also add a bit of True Randomness to account for irrational behaviour along with a bunch of other biases.