[andyjohnson0]

> Machine learning today does little more than pattern matching and it is far from intelligence at a human level.

I'm rather less confident about this than you may be. When I'm doing something that I could plausibly claim requires "intelligence", then it certainly doesn't really feel like I'm just doing pattern matching. But I'm increasingly of the view that our perception of our own mental processes is a poor guide to their reality. The likelihood that my intelligence really is just large scale pattern matching, even though it doesn't subjectively feel like that, seems quite high to me.