Intent is AI, yes. Just a different kind. Intent groups a list of words/phrases together so the AI can use those and any similar utterances to determine if the utterance matches that specific intent or not. This is "here are all the things that I want to be grouped into a single category". AI Transition is similar, but more about categorizing an utterance into a set of possible options. "Whatever was said, sort it into one of these categories". You could use both interchangeably to an extent, but they are not exactly the same. With intents yes you can control the scope to an extent, but it's not going to be exact no matter how you do it.