AI professor here. Most of AI is much closer to engineering or our knowledge of electricity before Maxwell, where we had been using it for 100+ years with big g

AI professor here. Most of AI is much closer to engineering or our knowledge of electricity before Maxwell, where we had been using it for 100+ years with big gaps in our understanding. Statistical learning theory is the branch of AI that is closely aligned with mathematics and is very proof heavy; however, my learning theory friends lament that what they can contribute in the current era is much more limited than 20+ years ago, where they gave us algorithms like boosting.