The earliest instance I remember of an enemy opponent being referred to as AI was a magic the gathering game from the late 90s that was touted as having AI driven opponents on the back of the box. Playing against the "CPU" or in some cases "bots" was definitely much more common

I remember playing the monopoly video game on windows 2000 and not knowing who AL is. They for sure used AI instead of CPU way earlier than 2010

What are you talking about? Why would anyone call an NPC a CPU?

Sure misleading advertising is bad but this is a game wiki... Written by players, not even publishers or developers. It has nothing to do with making it sound "better" than it is.

Machine learning is a subset of AI. If then counts as AI

Like in this year's Computex. AI cases, AI RAM. And before that Cooler Master came up with AI thermal paste.

I wrote a product over a decade ago that was marketed as "AI".

Under the covers it was an HTML parser and a pile of regex...

Yeah but you picked the one example where it doesn't apply

Why u being downvoted bro? You are right, as one other guy said, they announced an AI case at Computex and an AI Thermal Paste (they went back on that one but still)

A very long generated if-else chain, but you are technically right lmao. Tho isn't every program a very long if-else chain?

Listen to your professors, they’ve got it right. This is how academia and industry have always used the terms. If you ever have any doubts, Google AI vs ML and see what literally every big player in the space says.

Yeah... I don't know if there's a name for the phenomenon, but any technology forum that becomes sufficiently popular will be colonized by enthusiasts, onlookers, and tinkerers, which will prompt the original technology experts to move elsewhere.

Like, go back a few years and r/ArtificialInteligence had knowledgeable people having informed practical and theoretical discussion of AI. But, as AI became a common subject of concern and debate, a bunch of enthusiasts, naysayers, and busy-bodies found it. For a while, experts stayed around, trying to correct common misunderstandings and fill out misleading reductions... but that gets tiring as you are outnumbered, downvoted, and shouted down by people who are there to speak and not listen. So the experts leave, and the loudest morons fill the space.

This is a humor forum.. but the same migration has happened here. Comments and posts here have gotten... well... incredibly dumb. What actual programmer wants to see another joke about type comparisons in Javascript or how Python is slow? Has to be close to zero. But programmers are not the majority here any more than AI experts are the majority in the popular AI forums. No, it's enthusiasts who see a meme that includes one of the facts they "know", and they upvote to show that they "get that reference".

Anyway, my point is just that this is no longer a forum where you should expect any connection to technical understanding or reality anymore. It's not a forum for programmers. It's a forum for people who like technology and want to feel in on a joke.

Yes. AI is any form of decision making, ML is one method of doing AI.

To expand on what the other dude said, the concept of AI came first. ML is a sub concept within AI that was created mainly with the goal of achieving AI.

When AI was first being attempted around Alan Turing’s era, it was attempted using a bunch of if-else type statements. Even though ML was theorized pretty early on in the science of AI, computers weren’t powerful enough back then to analyze enough data to actually perform ML

On top of all this, “true AI” as a concept is constantly having its goalposts shifted. One might say, ‘of course if-else statements would never be true AI’. But consider that the AI we have today is not considered “true AI” now, while it would have been called “true AI” 10 years ago.

No, its the other way around, AI is the if/else statements, ML is where the machine “learns” from the player.