... and once it works, it "earns" a name of its own, at least among people actually doing it. Even in 2024 there are Machine Learning Conferences of note.
ICLR, ICML, KDD, ICCV, ECCV and NeurIPS are all major "AI" conferences and none of them has AI in the name. NeurIPS comes closest. "AI" has historically not been a useful distinction for anyone in the field.
I actually think this is changing given the current rapid ascent of multimodal models.
