alt Hacker NewsYes: you fit a decision tree to your dataset in an automated fashion, that fits the definition of machine learning. Just as you would use backpropagation to fit a neural network to your data.
This is what I learnt at university some decades ago, and it matches what wikipedia says today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_tree_learning
Oh, if the tree is made by the computer based on training data, that feels to me like what most people would agree is “artificial intelligence” in 2026 (which is why I think people should actually say “machine learning”).