Full Idea
Much of today's AI is best described as sophisticated machine-based pattern recognition.
Gist of Idea
Modern AI is mostly machine-based pattern recognition
Source
Anil Seth (Being You [2021], IV.13)
Book Reference
Seth,Anil: 'Being You: new science of consciousness' [Faber 2022], p.252
A Reaction
Personally I wouldn't want to underestimate the extent to which human intelligence is also pattern recognition (across time as well as in space).