Is Machine Learning Analytics or AI? - International Institute for Analytics

One of the definitional debates that bedevils the artificial intelligence (AI) field is whether machine learning is an AI-based method or technology. Or is it just an analytics-based activity? After all, it is statistical in nature, and attempts--as virtually analytical methods do--to fit a line or curve to a set of data points. And what difference does it make? Basic machine learning is practically indistinguishable from predictive analytics.