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Re:Ray Kurzweil: AI is still on course to outpace human inte... by peter303 on Monday January 21, 2019 @08:09PM (#18965143)
ML was covered in my 1972 AI course at MIT.
Re:Ray Kurzweil: AI is still on course to outpace human inte... by jobigoud on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @05:06AM (#18967244)
And it probably didn't mention neural networks, let alone deep neural networks, which is what the state of the art is using in so many tasks.

I'm not saying it's the end all be all, just that this is what "current ML" is generally meaning, and that this particular approach has only been explored for a few years.