I don't claim that Microsoft products are perfect, just that it seems a reasonable use of machine learning. The things I've seen them use ML models for are genuinely useful, and mostly added without too much fanfare years prior to the recent generative AI hype.
I understand, but think that in many relevant cases it'd now be non-ML approaches that would be "forced". Machine learning is just the easiest and best way to accomplish a large range of tasks.
I guess a general application of statistics and control is going to be called ML then? If that's the world we're living in then I wonder how the missing fraction are being governed. Pure malice?
Not all applications of statistics/control are ML - I don't know what I said to give that impression.
A spam filter based on regex or manually-selected criteria and thresholds would not be ML for instance, whereas modern effective spam filters typically do make use of machine learning.
