You are absolute right about most field of applications of ML. But in some fields like computer vision, we humans fail(at least till now) to make rules better

You are absolute right about most field of applications of ML. But in some fields like computer vision, we humans fail(at least till now) to make rules better than black box neural networks. Also, there are another group of ML people deal with rules+data, I quite agree with this article about the two types of ML: http://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.ss/1009213726%20 http://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.ss/1009213726...