An Artificial Intelligence Rant: Neural Networks Are Not Magic, They're Code

I was reading yet another document about artificial intelligence (AI). The introduction was covering the basics and the history of the subject. The authors mentioned expert systems and the real flaws that tactic had. Then the authors said that, luckily, there was an alternative called "machine learning." Yet more people who think anything older than them couldn't be classified the same way as the things they know.