[ocular-rockular]

You would be surprised how many people have no idea what "machine learning" means (not even technical definition but just as in the field). I'm working on a PhD in an adjacent field and basically have to tell people I work in AI for them to have any semblance of what I do.

[namaria]

I don't think telling people that have no idea what machine learning is that you work with 'AI' is giving them any semblance of understanding what you do.

[ocular-rockular]

No, it's not. But at least they have some relative, albeit flawed, context. It's the difference of having heard of something vs not.