Minor quibble: this dismissal of AI is too easy, in that it's a rather stinging indictment of the subfield of connectionism more so than, say: symbolic reasoning; genetic algorithms and classifier systems; artificial life more generally evolving computationally over enormous timescales; strong, numerous, belligerent, incorporated AIs; or any number of other approaches. Which isn't to say that even simple linear regression isn't an indispensable tool. It is. I'll admit, though, it'd really harsh my buzz if it was sufficiently expressive for strong AI.
Minor quibble: this dismissal of AI is too easy, in that it's a rather stinging indictment of the subfield of connectionism more so than, say: symbolic reasoning; genetic algorithms and classifier systems; artificial life more generally evolving computationally over enormous timescales; strong, numerous, belligerent, incorporated AIs; or any number of other approaches. Which isn't to say that even simple linear regression isn't an indispensable tool. It is. I'll admit, though, it'd really harsh my buzz if it was sufficiently expressive for strong AI.