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janalsncm · 2022-12-28 · Original thread
You may not see one as a subset of the other but there is no shortage of nested diagrams like [1], showing machine learning as a sub-field of artificial intelligence.

Further, the canonical Russell and Norvig AI textbook [2] only mentions machine learning briefly, as one of several skills that a computer would need in order to pass the Turing Test:

> machine learning to adapt to new circumstances and to draw new conclusions

And the Wikipedia page (which also contains a similar nested diagram) describes ML as a “part of” artificial intelligence.

So it is pretty clear to me that ML is treated as a sub-field of AI. However I still believe the AI field dances around the definition of Intelligence, preferring a practical task-oriented definition instead.

[1] https://www.edureka.co/blog/ai-vs-machine-learning-vs-deep-l...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Intelligence-Approach-Stua...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning

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