I really wish we would use more precise terminology when discussing and reporting on these things. It sounds like they used machine learning, and I wish we'd stop calling all machine learning AI, but that ship has probably sailed.
> Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are often used interchangeably, but machine learning is a subset of the broader category of AI.
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> Machine learning is a pathway to artificial intelligence. This subcategory of AI uses algorithms to automatically learn insights and recognize patterns from data, applying that learning to make increasingly better decisions.