Love to see a project that uses bog standard ML techniques and doesn't call them AI. Respect.
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The USGS predictive model provides the first estimate of total lithium present in Smackover Formation brines in southern Arkansas, using machine learning, which is a type of artificial intelligence.
For the HN audience, of course this is 'technically incorrect'.
The article was written for the (larger) general public.
I am also glad they didn't squeeze in a word salad of LLMs and quantum technology and instead stuck to 'it's just standard ML'.