Artificial Intelligence: Machine Learning vs. Deterministic Approach - Yseop Blog

It seems today that Machine Learning has become synonymous with Artificial Intelligence. While this is the result of good marketing, it isn't rooted in reality. The reality is that Machine Learning is just one approach to AI (in fact it's called the statistic approach). In the field of AI, there are two main schools of thought when it comes to programming how to make a machine mimic a human business process: statistic (sometimes called probabilistic) and deterministic. Neither of these approaches are "superior" to the other, they are just suited better to different use cases.