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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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