[mardifoufs]

I don't think that's been true for at least the past 10 years. I don't see how anything related to deep learning can be described as "if statements" imo.

[dingi]

care to elaborate on how ML models work then?

[Filligree]

Big piles of linear algebra. I don't think anyone involved with deep learning would describe it as 'if statements'; that's expert systems.