Back when I took AI courses in the early 90s, ML was anything that was trained b...

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Back when I took AI courses in the early 90s, ML was anything that was trained by data. It did not refer exclusively to dense numerical or statistical methods. It included decision trees, which I think of as being closer to the symbolic camp...