[nickcassimatis]

Even if you are correct about doing it with rules and a constraint solver, rule-based systems and constraint solving systems are all AI methods. Constraint solving especially is still a very active topic of AI research and something I myself researched once.

[tluyben2]

Yeah, I guess there is the sliding scale; I really find the term AI and now ML overused. For a subset of all these topics they are active research but for practical uses there are enough methods that have not been research for decade(s). Those I am referring to. As in the broad definition our MySQL auto optimizer is AI but they are just run of the mill algos everyone knows. Anyway; I am curious!

[nickcassimatis]

Yes, in a sense, all computing is AI. Alan Turing was explicit in his writings that he was trying to create machine intelligence and that he saw Turing Machines as a formalization of behavior he attributed to intelligence.

Thanks for the curiosity.