AI was renamed into many things in the '80s and '90s, for example "Intelligent Systems" or "Adaptive Systems" etc, and that indeed was done to dissociate research from the bad rep that had accrued for AI. But "machine learning" has been the name of a sub-field of AI since the 1950's and it's never stood for the whole, at least not in conferences, papers or any kind of activity of the field.
For example- two of the (still) major conferences in the field are AAAI and IJCAI: the conference of the "Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence" and the "International Joint Conferences of Artificial Intelligence". Neither of those is in any way, shape or form a conference for machine learning only and neither uses machine learning a byname for AI. By contrast, machine learning has its own journal(s actually) and there are specific conferences dedicated to machine learning and deep learning (NeurIPs and ICLR).
Additionally, there are many sub-fields of AI that are not machine learning, in name or function: intelligent agents, classical planning, reasoning, knowledge engineering etc etc.
The only confusion between "AI" and "machine learning" exists in the minds of tech journalists and the people who get their AI news exclusively from the tech press.
P.S. As a side note, the name for what the tech press is doing, referring to the field of AI as "machine learning", is "synecdoche": naming the whole by the name of the part.
For example- two of the (still) major conferences in the field are AAAI and IJCAI: the conference of the "Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence" and the "International Joint Conferences of Artificial Intelligence". Neither of those is in any way, shape or form a conference for machine learning only and neither uses machine learning a byname for AI. By contrast, machine learning has its own journal(s actually) and there are specific conferences dedicated to machine learning and deep learning (NeurIPs and ICLR).
Additionally, there are many sub-fields of AI that are not machine learning, in name or function: intelligent agents, classical planning, reasoning, knowledge engineering etc etc.
The only confusion between "AI" and "machine learning" exists in the minds of tech journalists and the people who get their AI news exclusively from the tech press.
P.S. As a side note, the name for what the tech press is doing, referring to the field of AI as "machine learning", is "synecdoche": naming the whole by the name of the part.