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by nunez 11 days ago
ML was always marketed separately as AI/ML, with AI being things like CNNs/RNNs/BERTs and such. Always felt like a distinction without a difference.
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Laypeople are changing how “AI” is used in common language, like they previously did for “algorithm” and “crypto”.

The textbook definition of AI is a system that solves problems that are difficult for humans. Whether the approach uses formal logic, machine learning, neural networks as a special case of machine learning, optimization, search problems, etc. does not matter.

I don't think so. ML was always associated with AI. When it wasn't, it was called statistics.