From AI to ML to AI: On Swirling Nomenclature and Slurried Thought (2018)

Before committing all future posts to the coming revolution, or abandoning the blog altogether to beseech good favor from our AI overlords at the AI church, perhaps we should ask, why are today’s headlines, startups and even academic institutions suddenly all embracing the term artificial intelligence (AI)? In this blog post, I hope to prod all stakeholders (researchers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, journalists, think-fluencers, and casual observers alike) to ask the following questions:

Well, perhaps not in “the beginning”, but certainly when I entered this world, AI was the preferred term of art to label the broad academic efforts at investigating machine intelligence. Since the sudden embrace of the term AI reverses a previous rebranding, we ought to ask, what warranted the switch from AI → ML in the first place?

Source: approximatelycorrect.com