AI in Malaysia. Only limited to googling some python packages, take all the fields available in the database and dump as inputs, take entire order list and dump as output, press run and pray for the best.

In fact, only 5% of people who are called data scientist know how to do above. More realistically, AI in Malaysia is googling some packages in python, run correlation tests and multivariate regression, see the R-squared, plot K-mean charts and do up fancy slides of time series.

They do, but more of what I described above. Basically it's some business statistics with lecturers on how to use certain packages with some dummy data. They are not really trained on real AI. AI is still very new, if a person is really skilled, likely he will be poached to SG. Malaysian bosses still are still not smart enough to appreciate true AI.

And like you said, those who use BI software also begin to call themselves AI / Data Scientist. When hiring nowadays, both employers and potential employees need to be careful of the term AI as it can mean any one of the following:

1. BI tool users
2. Management Information System workers
3. Data analyst who works with large amount of data and just prepare monthly reporting slides
4. Sometimes even data engineers and DBA
5. Statistical modellers (arguably these are closer to data scientist than others, but still not right)
6. Power Excel users who work with lots of data manipulation
7. Actual data scientist.
8. Actual AI engineers.