[rramadass]

Exactly!

One cannot do ML without some basic theoretical knowledge of Statistics and Probability. This gives you the What and the Why behind everything. GI-GO is more true of ML than other disciplines. The techniques used are so opaque that if you don't know what you are doing, you can never trust the results.

[fxtentacle]

One thing that made the Uber fatality possible was their over-confidence in their AI, which they apparently did not fully understand. They considered it unnecessary and disabled the car-integrated emergency collision breake system ...