> Logistics companies rely on huge amounts of optimization and problem-solving. Finding routes for drivers and deliveries, planning schedules, optimizing store

> Logistics companies rely on huge amounts of optimization and problem-solving. Finding routes for drivers and deliveries, planning schedules, optimizing store layouts, etc. -- that's AI. Is it? These have largely been done with MILP and related tools for decades, and those approaches have never been called AI. What AI techniques are you thinking of here? Anyway, AI gets a bad rap because there's so much hype and snake oil out there that the signal is being lost in the noise. I'll be much better disposed towards it once the next AI winter hits. Like for instance, I have great respect for anybody selling an expert system at this point in time.