The "OG" AI research, like the the era of Minsky's AI Lab at MIT in the 1970s, broke AI into a few sub-domains, of which optimization was one. So long before w

The "OG" AI research, like the the era of Minsky's AI Lab at MIT in the 1970s, broke AI into a few sub-domains, of which optimization was one. So long before we used the term AI to describe an LLM-based chat bot, we used it to describe optimization algorithms like genetic algorithms, random forests, support vector machines, etc.