Although it fundamentally is curve fitting, I'd venture to say that at some point, having to handle millions of parameters makes the curve fitting problem unrec

Although it fundamentally is curve fitting, I'd venture to say that at some point, having to handle millions of parameters makes the curve fitting problem unrecognizable... A change in quantity is a change is nature if you will. IOW: to me, fitting a generalized linear model is very different than fitting a convolutional network.