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by xapata 2668 days ago
Artificial intelligence is a superset of, not equivalent to statistical machine learning.
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Ever since expert systems fizzled out and failed to deliver on their promise in the 80s, AI has been roughly equivalent to statistical machine learning and its applications. Everything else became just logic that needs statistical inference in order to work intelligently in a complex setting.
You could label anything AI. Might as well call my if statement AI