Is machine learning the same thing as AI?
No — machine learning is a subset of AI, not a synonym for it. AI is any system that performs tasks requiring apparent intelligence, including systems built from hand-written rules with no learning involved at all (a chess engine's minimax search, an expert system's if-then rules). ML specifically means the system improves by learning patterns from data instead of following pre-written rules.
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