> I guess the part where they're estimating parameters for the equations from photos counts as ML, but people have stopped calling this stuff "AI" quite a while ago.
That's the AI effect.
That's the AI effect.
Indeed- as that coined term suggests, "AI" has such a philosophically-tied definition with moving goalposts, that in practice it gets slapped far too liberally on anything 'magical' having to do with computation. (As long as it's still trendy to do so, at least.)
'Machine Learning' is at least a little more specific of a term (if still rather general).