Are you using the term 'algorithm' in the mathematical and computer-science sense of "a process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-

Are you using the term 'algorithm' in the mathematical and computer-science sense of "a process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations", or are you using it in the SV-marketing-hype sense of "an ML trained to produce the answer we want to see"? It can be very confusing switching back and forth.