Yes, I’d say all of machine learning is a subset of the broader field of AI, which just pretty much means “solving problems in an intelligent way”, and it has always been like this. Look up how people talked about Deep Blue, for instance. They certainly called the program an AI and gave it agency.
This is also a good read: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_artificial_intelligence
AI is a much broader topic, including “trivial” stuff like search trees. You are talking about AGI, where the G stands for General.
This would actually be useful for local testing of software during development.
And fuck your versioning system. And you dependency management. And tooling. Why are there like five different projects trying to lock down the python environment? Conda? Venv?
Even Ubuntu tries to lock down python so that it doesn’t brick the install due to dependency conflicts.
I agree with you! The point is that it’s always been like that! By now it’s part of the term. AI has nothing to do with intelligence; it is mereley the attempt to create a smarter alhorithm, aolving new problems.