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As of 2020, many sources continue to assert that machine learning remains a subfield of AI. The main disagreement is whether all of ML is part of AI as shown in Fig-x. This would mean that anyone using ML could claim they are using AI, as all of ML is a subfield of AI. Others have the view that not all of ML is part of AI  as shown in Fig-y where only a subset of ML is part of AI or a subset of AI is part of ML.

The question to what is the difference between ML and AI is answered by Judea Pearl in The Book of Why. Accordingly ML learns and predicts based on passive observations, whereas AI implies an agent interacting with the environment to learn and take actions that maximize its chance of successfully achieving its goals.