Well, that depends on the definition of AI doesn't it?

If AI is defined as being inclusive of ML then QED.

One could go further and say any decision or computation previously only performed by an organic being that is being performed by a mechanical one is included. Therefore evenThe Difference Engine could be defined as AI

AI inherits all the fuzziness of two imprecise terms. Artifical and Intelligence It is a semantic argument rather than a factual one.