Yeah, but for a while it seemed we'd gotten over that, and in the "modern era" people were just talking about ML. Nobody in 2012, as best I can recall, was refe

Yeah, but for a while it seemed we'd gotten over that, and in the "modern era" people were just talking about ML. Nobody in 2012, as best I can recall, was referring to AlexNet as "AI", but then (when did it start?) at some point the media started calling everything AI, and eventually the ML community capitulated and started calling it that too - maybe because the VC's wanted to invest in sexy AI, not ML.