I prefer to think of them as "Learned Techniques, Mechanical Adjustments and Corrective Accelerometers". ;-)

I was flying my 85" Carbon Z Cub at a float fly and was hit by a gust as I cleared the tree-line on the opposite side of the lake. The sun was such that as I was watching the model I saw one aileron raise just as I was adding rudder to wing-over back towards me. I had a mild panic as I thought I had experienced my first glitch . . . and later remembered this model has AS3X and will try and self-correct. It just decided the correction was different than my intentions. Normally I forget it's even on.