and there are many more things like this. Back in the day "expert systems" were AI. For any given piece of software, it will meet some definition of AI from some time period.
The term AI is about as concrete as "awesome".
The term AI is about as concrete as "awesome".
Arguably that’s a different overload of the term “AI” the way it’s used in business, but I think it’s a good reminder that AI as a field has a long history that developed separately from ML and data science.