> I think you could accurately say machine learning is a subfield of ai. Yes, that is a widely accepted view of AI/ML. "AI" designates any method to give machi

> I think you could accurately say machine learning is a subfield of ai. Yes, that is a widely accepted view of AI/ML. "AI" designates any method to give machines cognitive capabilities, while ML is a particular family of techniques (statistical learning) for giving machine such capabilities. Other branches of AI would include symbolic AI, expert systems, and other 70s techniques where processes were explicitly programmed rather than learned from data. Today, because these other branches have largely fallen out of favor over the past 40 years, ML has become almost synonymous with AI. The semantic distinction is still there, though.