Sure, I see what you mean, but he is trying to help people who are navigating "machine learning", whatever that is. Your argument is the same as "well, why did

Sure, I see what you mean, but he is trying to help people who are navigating "machine learning", whatever that is. Your argument is the same as "well, why did they call it gravity, shouldn't they have called it attraction?" It is what it is, and you teach based on the term already in the literature.