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Hasn't scifi and comp science been using AI since the early days? They weren't using as marketing term, and this was before PC's so there wasn't much of a market.

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When science fiction mentions artificial intelligence it is almost always in reference to what we now call general artificial intelligence. Which is very different than the machine learning we now call AI.

Yes: "AI" stands for "Artificial Intelligence."

As in a computer mimics human-level intelligence; as opposed to, you know, sitting down and writing a computer program.

Personally I figured ML was a toolset to maybe eventually achieve some form of AI.

I think that's a good way to look at it. Math is a way to stats, stats and math are a way to do data science, data science is a foundation of machine learning, and machine learning is a tool to create AI.

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