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”