well uh.. I mean.. I beg to differ. I guess my opinion is "if what we call machine learning is really an old dream, then what was called control theory (and still is called control theory) was actually the grandchild of the idea of machine learning itself -- and that present-day machine learning is maybe only becoming real 100 or so years after when it was first dreamable, and actually dreamed of"

That said, there are many problems that troubled the earliest philosophers that still trouble the latest philosophers.. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ .. but computers do pose themselves as a fundamentally-new tool.