Red-Portal t1_j43wds7 wrote on January 13, 2023 at 12:05 AM

You'll have a hard time finding non-ML approaches to AI, but there are still plenty of non-AI applications of ML. For example, classical topics like kernel methods, learning theory, optimization, all ML topics that are not-so AI flavored.

sabertoothedhedgehog t1_j44ft8i wrote on January 13, 2023 at 2:23 AM

Your statement only makes sense if one's mental model is not a Venn diagram of concentric circles: AI > ML > Deep Learning.

sabertoothedhedgehog t1_j44kct1 wrote on January 13, 2023 at 2:55 AM

(Which is OK. Sebastian Raschka, for example, has this view that AI and ML are not concentric circles but merely overlapping. He thinks a cat vs. dog classifier is so narrow, it is not aiming for the larger vision of AI. Fair.)

Smallpaul t1_j46hv6v wrote on January 13, 2023 at 2:39 PM

I think marketers have really influenced the definitions. Calling a linear regression house price estimator "AI" seems like a stretch unless you're trying to get venture capitalists excited. But today, most business people probably will.

Is the Amazon product recommender system "AI"? Is it ML?

sabertoothedhedgehog t1_j46i4j6 wrote on January 13, 2023 at 2:41 PM

I agree.

I still resist though and do not say that "I have developed an AI that does xyz" but say that "I developed a predictive ML model that does xyz".