That's a good point. I think we need to have a better understanding about how the brain works before we can properly answer that question. At this point there's a lot we don't understand about the brain, and psychology for that matter, it's basically a black box that we can observe through a microscope or other imaging system but we don't really understand what's happening.
An ant only has around 250,000 neurons, yet they're still more intelligent than the most advanced "AI" we've managed to produce.
An ant may not be able to paint a painting or write a novel, but I think most people agree they qualify as an intelligent being.
Can we really call this ANTNN "intelligent" when it falls victim to trivial adversarial inputs? Ones that arise in the real world, not just in artificial inputs mind you. Clearly those ANTNNs are still far from anything that could rival natural intelligences.
The current leading theories on how the brain works are that yes, they are essentially very impressive prediction machines, which obviously rely on all sorts of pattern matching to make said predictions. You can look up Karl Friston's free energy principle or check this book for more details
An ant only has around 250,000 neurons, yet they're still more intelligent than the most advanced "AI" we've managed to produce.
An ant may not be able to paint a painting or write a novel, but I think most people agree they qualify as an intelligent being.