General AI conferences such as IJCAI [1] and AAAI [2] have been publishing machine learning papers forever, just as they have been publishing constraint satisfa

General AI conferences such as IJCAI [1] and AAAI [2] have been publishing machine learning papers forever, just as they have been publishing constraint satisfaction-related papers, logics-related papers, multi-agent stuff papers, etc.. Of course non-generalist conferences such as ICML, UAI, AAMAS, etc. focus on more specific topics, and those are considered of the same level (A+) than IJCAI/AAAI. Their existence does not mean that anyone in those fields doesn't think they are not doing AI. In fact, pretty much everyone agrees they are doing AI. If anyone does not agree on that, it is (part of) the pro-"symbolic reasoning" crowd, which sometimes claim only their "strong AI" approach is actual AI and everything else is just little more than mathematical tricks. [1] https://aaai.org/Library/conferences-library.php https://aaai.org/Library/conferences-library.php [2] https://www.ijcai.org/past_proceedings https://www.ijcai.org/past_proceedings