I find it pretty helpful to just accept the new meaning of "artificial intelligence": a program making a decision you didn't explicitly code it to make. Note th

I find it pretty helpful to just accept the new meaning of "artificial intelligence": a program making a decision you didn't explicitly code it to make. Note that this includes even the most basic statistical decision methods, which the term is used for not too infrequently. We already have more specifuc technical words for the approaches that are generally sold as "artificial intelligence", like neural networks/machine learning etc.