My question to you: can bitcoin's algorithm which alters mining difficulty to guarantee the last bitcoin is mined on may 7th, 2140 be considered a form of artificial intelligence?
With california replacing the bail process with an algorithm, perhaps this justifies bitcoin replacing economists and financial analysts with what might loosely be considered artificial intelligence?
Could this news article be considered acknowledgement algorithms or AI can do important jobs better than people. And so perhaps bitcoin represents a large leap forward in innovation due to its supply being determined via algorithm/AI rather than humans?
No, people should stop misusing the term "AI", and we definitely shouldn't confuse the public by telling that Bitcoin has AI in it's protocol. Leave these tricks to altcoiners, they love to use tech buzzwords to lure investors, Bitcoin should be better than that.
Currently by AI people usually mean adaptive algorithms like neural networks, but Bitcoin's difficulty adjustment is just a few "if" statements. PoW consensus as a whole is indeed a great invention, but it's hard or even impossible to apply it to non-cryptocurrency blockchains. We should focus attention on Bitcoin as a whole instead of disassembling it into parts and then thinking how to apply them elsewhere.