This is kind of bait-and-switch, no?

The author defines American style intelligence as "the ability to adapt to new situations, and learn from experience".

Then argues that the current type of machine-learning driven AI is American style-intelligent because it is inductive, which is not what was supposedly (?) being argued for.

Of course current AI/ML models cannot adapt to new situations and learn from experience, outside the scope of its context window, without a retraining or fine-tuning step.