For an answer to the headline, let's start with a common definition of AI: A computer doing work that was thought to require a human. Okay, with this defini

For an answer to the headline, let's start with a common definition of AI: A computer doing work that was thought to require a human. Okay, with this definition, we can count as AI computer based applications of a large fraction of the often fantastic material in the QA section of a research library. E.g., we can drag out lots of applied math, applied statistics, optimization, operations research, experimental design, EE style signal processing, optimal control theory, etc. along with whatever we can cook up that is new.