Why would something need to use techniques less than 10 years old to qualify as being AI? The field of artificial intelligence has been around for well over 50

Why would something need to use techniques less than 10 years old to qualify as being AI? The field of artificial intelligence has been around for well over 50 years. Long before the most recent boom in AI research and marketing, AI has been a serious academic field and has been taught as part of a standard computer science curriculum. Very basic techniques like A* search are widely recognized as being AI techniques. There’s really no point in having a semantic argument, but just know that if you wish to do so you are arguing against many decades of wide usage of the term.