I know this is supposed to be humor, but if philosoraptor is trying to say AI is overhyped, I wholeheartedly agree.

In the sense that a CD player learns new music when you insert a disc, yes.

The machine didn’t learn anything, just executed your orders.

Imagine that you sit with your grandma in front of a PC (and let’s assume she’s not a SE). You fire up a terminal, give her the keyboard and dictate every keystroke necessary to write and execute a program (or do any other task for that matter). Does that mean that your grandma just learned programming? I think not. Learning implies being able to find and apply some rules which where not explicitly given.

Yes, both of those words can be argued to apply in a vacuum. “AI” has started to intrinsically mean neural nets now, though.

As for the title: Lol, look at this guy who doesn’t even loop. What are you going to do, halt on top of me?

PS. Is there a way to crosspost comments easily?

In computer science (at least before hype took over) this is actually a type of machine learning called an expert system.