That "other thread" wasn't throwing hate at deep learning -- not by any stretch. Orr even talking about the failures (or even exaggerations) of ML -- compared

That "other thread" wasn't throwing hate at deep learning -- not by any stretch. Orr even talking about the failures (or even exaggerations) of ML -- compared to what ML as such claims to be able to do. ML/DL are both perfectly fine for what they do, and have of course made great strides in recent years. The critique was the tendency to continually pass these strides off as "AI" or something asymptotically close to it. Either on the part of sleazy companies pushing self-driving cars like they're just around the corner. Or supposedly reputable science journals that really ought to know better by now.