Statistics. A lot of this is marketing bullshit. AFAIK, even "machine learning" was a term made up by AI researchers when the AI winter hit who wanted to keep

Statistics. A lot of this is marketing bullshit. AFAIK, even "machine learning" was a term made up by AI researchers when the AI winter hit who wanted to keep getting a piece of that sweet grant money. And "neural network" is just a straight up rubbish name. All it does is obscure what's actually happening and leads the proles to think it has something to do with neurons.