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.
No, it's not.
What the philosoraptor is saying is that literally any computer program is machine learning, which is untrue.
An expert system is a system designed to simulate an expert. It's something you would seek advice from in some way. They're used in medical diagnoses and stock market trading, for example.
Expert systems are a series of if statements by definition, a rule engine. I was going off of "a network of ifs" but I get what you mean.
