What’s the difference between machine learning and artificial intelligence?

Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans
Published in
4 min readNov 6, 2022

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IMAGE: An isolated human brain on a white background, with a windup key inserted on it

John Naughton’s article in The Guardian, “Machine-learning systems are problematic. That’s why tech bosses call them ‘AI’”, provides an entertaining read about a machine learning issue I always focus on when teaching: using the term artificial intelligence or AI only reveals the ignorance of the user, and the inability, as the great Arthur C. Clarke explained…

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Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans

Professor of Innovation at IE Business School and blogger (in English here and in Spanish at enriquedans.com)