I am not an expert in AI but a watcher of AI approaches. My view is that AI uses iterative processes (of ‘guess-and-check’) on a number of ‘features’ of ‘objects’ (or subjects of interest). There are various ways to make guesses and many ways to check. So, AI processes are not much different from ‘our own “experiential” learning’. We need to try and check the result over and over until we are sure that we have got it right, before we put our ‘intelligence’ to work on ‘things’ we have and have not known (but assumed to be ‘like’) before.

I see that ‘children’ learn by repetition so their sensors (6 senses), memory (of ‘facts’ or knowledge) and ‘thinking’ (data processing) are more and more capable. At a certain level of capability (say passing PISA), we say ‘they are intelligent’.