From: ted.dunning@gmail.com   
      
   > But I'm convincing, also thank to this thread, that these problems are   
   > categorizable as pretended intelligence.   
      
   You asked for the simplest possible programs.  Now you kvetch that   
   they are too simple-minded.   
      
   The point of AI is not necessarily to build an intelligent computer,   
   but rather to write programs that solve problems that would normally   
   be assumed to require intelligence.  The two goals are subtly   
   different.   
      
   Your disillusionment mirrors some of the progress in the field.  As   
   many problems that were once thought to require general intelligence   
   were shown to be soluble using cheap hacks, the definition of what   
   requires intelligence or even what intelligence might be has shifted.   
      
   > Probably my original question is badly posed: it seems impossible to   
   > write a piece of simple code without the necessary abstractions.   
      
   It is definitely hard to write a simple piece of code that is complex.   
      
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