Yes, the point is LLMs are AI.
ML is AI too. But sales didn’t call it that because AI had the reputation of “just brute force with some heuristics”.
Now we forget about that so it’s hype to call things AI again. Once LLMs lose their magic the next big AI thing will again not be sold as AI.



Ok. You said LLMs are not AI, I didn’t agree with the nuance. You’re making a big thing out of this.
ML was huge in B2B and still going steady. Not “SVMs as a service”, but you bet sales teams were letting everybody know that their solutions learn. You can find loads of conference material about “why ML is better than AI” from a decade ago. They pivoted to calling it AI again of course, even if the product didn’t change.