A municipal snow-route office used to ship one fixed plow-priority table each November. The replacement system keeps changing those priorities as new storm telemetry arrives. What distinction should the tester recognize?

A fixed November plow table stays put after one release test. A system that keeps rewriting priorities from new storm telemetry is adaptable AI-based behavior, so monitoring continues after go-live. Adaptability does not retire later checks, and the old table was never adaptive.