I think their hype got even you a little bit. That is revealed by the word "even" in the phrase: 'people calling CNNs or even non-deep-learning models "AI"'...
What I mean by this is - I don't see how anyone could reasonably call a Random Forest "AI" with a straight face, whereas someone could (wrongly, but understandably) call a CNN / RNN / etc. AI if only because it has the word "neural" in it.
There's two groups:
- People who are overly enthusiastic about neural nets
- People who are cynically calling every ML algorithm "AI", up to and including linear regression
There's two groups:
- People who are overly enthusiastic about neural nets
- People who are cynically calling every ML algorithm "AI", up to and including linear regression
and I'm more annoyed at the last one.