The way I've been telling it: - It's statistics if the goal is to figure out why it works - It's data science if nobody cares why it works - It's ML if nobod

The way I've been telling it: - It's statistics if the goal is to figure out why it works - It's data science if nobody cares why it works - It's ML if nobody knows why it works - It's AI if it's actually impossible to figure out why it works The definitions are not quite mutually exclusive.