An AI degree that doesn't teach anything about learning about the real world from data (the stats that scientists get) seems really weird, even if that does see

An AI degree that doesn't teach anything about learning about the real world from data (the stats that scientists get) seems really weird, even if that does seem to be the state of things. AI is about learning and decisionmaking, and the learning side is currently pretty heavy on the pattern recognition side, but why bake that into the education? You can't teach someone to automate learning without teaching them to learn the old fashioned way. There's a reason basic statistical inference and experimental design is such a foundation for every scientific field, but it's always missing in these AI progressions. It's sure as hell present in the jobs people going through these degrees will probably end up in.