[zeckalpha]

s/computer science/Mathematics/ s/Artificial Intelligence/Computer Science/

New fields start somewhere.

[qayxc]

Except that ML and AI aren't new fields at all - they are over 60 years old and predate CS education by decades.

CNN, LSTM, and RNN are just special techniques in a much broader field that has been around for a long time.

Thinking ML/AI is new is exactly equivalent to thinking that electric cars are new...

[disgruntledphd2]

Linear regression, correlation and general statistical minimisation approaches are almost a century old.

The only real difference is that computer scientists are cool and have hip new terms (and money), while statisticians are boring and uncool.

[zeckalpha]

CS was around many years before becoming a major.