It looks like machine learning took over in the 2010s after a long convergence starting in the 2000s. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=artificial+

It looks like machine learning took over in the 2010s after a long convergence starting in the 2000s. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=artificial+intelligence%2Cmachine+learning&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=artificial+int... This is from published books, so probably less affected by popular narratives. For that, we have Google Trends! It looks like they trade places repeatedly when constrained to news searches: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?cat=5&date=all_2008&geo=US&gprop=news&q=%2Fm%2F01hyh_,%2Fm%2F0mkz&hl=en https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?cat=5&date=all_2008...