Not at all: AI is pseudo-science too. More aggressively even, as many papers don't even bother to establish criteria of empirical adequacy, or have any notion o

Not at all: AI is pseudo-science too. More aggressively even, as many papers don't even bother to establish criteria of empirical adequacy, or have any notion of statistical testing. At an interview at a major US multinational tech company, their head of ML didnt even know what statistical testing was for! -- thinking that stats was the handmaiden of optimization (...!).