On the other hand, the "more ignorant CS approach" has produced impressive achievements in language tasks (e.g., translation), visual tasks (e.g., image generation), game playing tasks (e.g., Go), agent-in-virtual-world tasks (e.g., DOTA), and robot-in-real-world tasks (e.g., self-driving cars).
Academic statistics departments often seem to be "20 years behind" on all those fronts...
On the other hand, the "more ignorant CS approach" has produced impressive achievements in language tasks (e.g., translation), visual tasks (e.g., image generation), game playing tasks (e.g., Go), agent-in-virtual-world tasks (e.g., DOTA), and robot-in-real-world tasks (e.g., self-driving cars).
Academic statistics departments often seem to be "20 years behind" on all those fronts...