> Machine learning techniques are AI, as the term has been used in industry and academia for decades. As the poster said, most of them are just statistics; th

> Machine learning techniques are AI, as the term has been used in industry and academia for decades. As the poster said, most of them are just statistics; the term has been used in industry and academia for _centuries_. Predictive models based on accumulated data is just what statistics is applied to do. Calling it AI academically is a big stretch, calling it AI in industry is a marketing technique.