If only you could get the computer to program itself via brute force validation. but its unfortunately going to take 2^synapses trials to find the result, then that would be more than just some statistical observation->prediction machine, it literally develops the closest matching algorythm to its environment!!!!!
But I guess doing it that way isn't quite rocket science, and ppl may actually show quite distaste for it when they see what u'r hiding under the carpet about the situation.
Like maybe, its not quite so genius. Since most bums on the street probably have heard about the man that walks in all directions from now and finds where the wine is.
Its a simplistic thing to know, but alot of very important truths in life are simply knowable, such as how to make cheese, its a bit of conundrum working out WHY it happens, but u can fluke doing it with vinegar and milk together. Another simple one is amalgamating chalk powder into solid chalk, if u put it in water, vibrate it, heat it, put in enclosed vessel with small leak, apply pressure and make it acidic, it will become like glass after a few days, its amazing, but there's nothing really that challenging about it, especially mentally, actually going through the practical to do it poses some engineering riddles/hurdles to overcome.
But the strange thing about A.I. is its not even really hard to know how/why it works, (brute force validation is a fairly simple topic anyone can understand) its just we cant do it without a quantum computer, so thats the less exciting thing about something that would grant someone greedy power beyond, so its best if we didn't have it anyway.
These kind of things are so banal you feel silly for even appreciating them at all, and u may as well just be a brickies labourer.
"Brute force" is a good way to explain something that doesn't have finesse', like maybe mental arithmetic. And the concept is simple.