[joe_the_user]

I think the GP was noting the problem that AI can easily encounter situations beyond what it was designed and simply fail while human intelligence involves a more robust combination of behaviors and thus humans can generalize in a much wider variety of situations.

If the system designer has to know the parameters of the challenge the system is up again, it should be obvious you can always add another parameter that the designer didn't know about and get a situation where the system will fail. This is much more of a problem in "real world situations" which no designer can fully describe.