What is the definition of AI? - Data Points

After four posts discussing the differences between machine learning and AI, and demonstrating that AI can live without machine learning (and vice versa), the time has come to define AI. Let us first point out that there is no committee to decide which products constitute an AI and which do not. There is no government agency that awards official AI certificates to machines. Rather, the choice of using the term is left to individuals and companies themselves. Thus, we have to look into how companies, researchers or journalists use the phrase, and see when people feel comfortable or maybe even compelled to call a product an AI.