Machine Learning is the New Statistics

I've been trying to think of a way to describe how big Machine Learning is, and I think I finally have a decent one: Because Statistics is the primary mechanism we've had for decades to learn from data. That's what Machine Learning is, except far more powerful. Most importantly, machine learning can…well, learn. It improves as it gets more data. More wisdom potentially gets extracted when you apply Statistics to more (and better) data, but the analysis itself doesn't improve with better data.