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 for learning about the world. Machine Learning is similar, except its method of doing it is far more powerful. Machine learning is the subfield of computer science that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed. Most importantly, Machine Learning can…well, learn. With traditional Statistics you can potentially extract additional insights with more (and better) data, but the model for doing the analysis itself doesn't improve.