How Does No one actually knows why AI works Work?

No one actually knows why AI works because it’s like having a super-smart robot that can solve puzzles but doesn’t know how it did it.

AI is like a really clever friend who can guess your favorite snack just by listening to you talk about your day. But sometimes, even when they get the answer right, they don’t know why they picked that snack, it just felt right.

Imagine you have a big box full of different colored blocks. You want to build a tower as tall as you are, but you don’t know how to stack them. AI is like someone who tries different combinations of blocks until the tower stands up. They might not know why that combination worked, it just did.

Sometimes, even if the robot knows the answer, it doesn’t explain how it got there. It's like you asking your friend, “Why did you pick blue blocks?” and they say, “I don’t know, I just felt like it.”

That’s why no one actually knows why AI works, it gets things right, but sometimes it can't tell you how.