I assumed that basic ML was similar to the statistics I already knew, and that deep learning was inherently different. It had to be different, given how people

I assumed that basic ML was similar to the statistics I already knew, and that deep learning was inherently different. It had to be different, given how people talked about it. It is just an illustration of how the fuss made about AI at this time impacted researcher's minds with no expertise in ML. This is going down, fortunately.