Phones do use AI though, at least iPhones. They look at all sensors (accelerometers, gps, wifi, etc).

Sensor fusion is AI I guess.

AI can be distilled down to a series of if-statements. That's basically all it is.

Right, expert systems are GOF AI. What isn't?

This is true of literally any software and if you really wanna oversimplify it, our brains are just a bunch of if statements (condition based logic) too...

I noticed too late to add /s or to attribute the quote, but kinda sad that people are taking it literally.

It’s a play on the quote “Life is a series of choices and reactions” from “Before The Fall”

Gosh, so the moment you use an if-statement, or an aggregate function (like sum or average), or weighting coefficients to mark some inputs as more significant than others, it's "AI" already? And I naïvely thought it was just, well, "computing". You could do "AI" on a 8086, ffs.

Yeah, forgot the /s ... wasn't being serious.

heuristics and Meta-heuristics are AI. Heuristics are how children (and adults) learn to solve new problems.