An Alternate History for Machine Learning?

Dave Donoho is be congratulated on his insightful article (Donoho, 2024), which provides substantial evidence for a more pragmatic and less fearful view on the fast progress of data science.I am interpreting the term data science in the sense Jeff Wu (1986) intended when he coined the phrase, as an alternative name for statistics that emphasizes its modern developments, in line with Donoho (2017).Data science thus overlaps a great deal with machine learning.In fact, the article uses these terms interchangeably, and expresses the opinion that calling the current phenomenon "AI singularity" is misleading.