Comment by esafak

2 years ago

It's just because they did not study statistics, so they were unaware of it.

https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/mhydari/statistics.ML.dictio...

At my department, instructors were well aware of statistics. That was a prerequisite course on the AI path. Some early day software (WEKA) used statistic nomenclature extensively.

The best part of DNNs I think is the brute force backprop over essentially randomized feature generation (convolutions)… Statisticians would never do that.