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Because too many people now refer to all of machine learning as AI.



All of machine learning is AI. It's a subset, by definition.


The issue is that the terms have escaped the computer science labs and the media and the public have latched on to AI, and uses it for everything.

It is true that all of this, machine learning, large language models, natural language processing and much more is AI, in the sense that it falls under the same artificial intelligence umbrella in computer science. It just feels a little like some one is using the term "construction" over and over, but what they are specifically talking about is some very specialized type of carpentry. It's not wrong, it's just not all that precise and give the wrong impression.




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