While I am not statistically sophisticated to say whether the statement is true or not, it seems that the mathematical machinery is strongly converging, as witn

While I am not statistically sophisticated to say whether the statement is true or not, it seems that the mathematical machinery is strongly converging, as witnessed by papers like [1], where some of the statistical machinery is being developed on the ML side. It might be historically interesting to note that 20-30 years ago, ML also more evenly spanned work that would be considered AI based -- as including logic or knowledge representation see [2 - 4] as examples. [1] Variational Inference: A Review for Statisticians, https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.00670 https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.00670 [2] A Summary of Machine Learning Papers from IJCAI-85 http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~tgd/publications/mlj-ijcai85review.pdf http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~tgd/publications/mlj-ijcai8... [3] Chunking in soar: the anatomy of a general learning mechanism, http://repository.cmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2552&context=compsci http://repository.cmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2552&c... [4] Explanation-Based Learning: An Alternative View, http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~ml/papers/ebl-mlj-86.pdf http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~ml/papers/ebl-mlj-86.pdf