There's no magic in 'AI', all of it can be described as something else. The whole of ML is 'just statistics', especially classification. (That said I was and I

There's no magic in 'AI', all of it can be described as something else. The whole of ML is 'just statistics', especially classification. (That said I was and I suppose am a bit of a sceptic because of that. But mainly I think because to me it's more useful to call a spade a spade and say we're doing some advanced blah stats to blah. Helps explain, onboard, and motivate the next generation (who likes stats at school? But if that's how AI works, oh suddenly it's cool). Demystify it. If you're just searching over Levenshtein distance [to a technical audience] say that, don't start waffling about 'AI'.)