What is intelligent about natural pattern recognition? /s
Sarcasm aside, your definition is too low-level, as if we called brains just braincells. Pattern recognition is a building block of AI like a logic gate is a building block of a CPU.
If you studied formal logic, you understand what logic gates do and what a CPU can do.
We don't understand brains or braincells - how many operations per cecond can a braincell do? What type of operations? How many bytes does it store? We don't know.
Can we replace a single braincell with a chip and get them to act the same?
Likely not, but that was not my point either, it was just an non-stretchable analogy.
AI is not a single network usually, it is a pipeline of networks of different kinds, see e.g. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P1IcaBn3ej0 (seek to 1:35 for beginning of an architecture overview). You can’t call it “just pattern matching” without fetching it too far.
Sarcasm aside, your definition is too low-level, as if we called brains just braincells. Pattern recognition is a building block of AI like a logic gate is a building block of a CPU.