I best summarized my claim when I said the following. Whether or not it's an ‘AI field’ is not very interesting to me, as long as the following holds. --- Lik

I best summarized my claim when I said the following. Whether or not it's an ‘AI field’ is not very interesting to me, as long as the following holds. --- Like, my point is not about whether you can find the odd person trying to solve intelligence with grammars, or what were GOFAI conferences still harbour GOFAI research in the corners, my point is that a) these approaches don't work as a way to actually tackle AI, the problem, b) the vast majority of the field does not take them as seriously as a method of doing so, regardless of other uses, and c) therefore it's natural, not ‘impossible’, to gain AI expertise without having much care for those parts of the field.