[kadoban]

It's not "an AI", it's AI as in artificial intelligence, the study of making machines do things that humans do.

A fairly simple set of if statements is AI (an "expert system" specifically).

AI is _not_ just talking movie robots.

[Dylan16807]

You can remove the word 'an' if you're attributing some weird meaning to it, the point is still valid. Genetic algorithms and optimizers are usually in there to make AI algorithms, they aren't themselves AI algorithms.

And you have to be doing something rather specific with a pile of if statements for it to count as an expert system.