How Different are Conventional Programming and Machine Learning?

Engineering allowed us to push the limits of human capabilities. We used our understanding of nature and utilized that to serve our purposes. Be it a high performant mechanical machinery or an encoded silicon chip. Computers have been by far one of the most intricate utilization of nature's forces put to help humans in pushing their limits of capabilities i.e. many tasks which can be performed by computers can never be performed that quickly and efficiently by a human or a set of humans. As Steve Jobs would say, computers are like a bicycle for our minds.